Thanks for all the ideas and suggestions. I ran for two days on a CD, then tried again to boot from the HD. One time it worked fine, then it failed with the same error ( error: attempt to read or write outside of disk 'hd0'. Entering rescue mode. grub rescue>). The next time I tried with the CD, it could not access the HD. I tried my old HD with the CD. It could not be accessed either. So I took it to the local shop (Portland Support, 3150 SW 87th Av. Portland). He suspected the HD dock, since he often observes problems with them. Yes, that is what it was. He stuck the drive inside, and now everything is fine. $45, minimum charge. Competent, fast, genuinely nice guy.
Some of you may recall that I had some suspicions of a HD problem in late July. I replaced the drive and had no problems until this issue. I suspect that July problem was not the drive, but the dock. So now it is likely that I have a good spare drive. -Denis _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
