jam <[email protected]> writes:
> On Tuesday 14 July 2009 10:00:06 [email protected] wrote:
>
>> This is mostly a 'wot hoppen?' and 'wot's going on' -- but advice what
>> to do about it would be very welcome.
>>
>> I was using a bash script with convert (from ImageMagick) to convert a
>> lot of big tiff files, I mistyped a / for a x ... everything froze,
>> and when I goto ut (it rebooted) there was only a Error 15: File not
>> found. This was Ubuntu 8.04
>>
>> I was able to swap to the second disk, and, editing root, was able to
>> boot Debian AMD 64.
>>
>> The first disk (actually sdb) seems OK, I checked with fsck, BIOS
>> recognises it, and I mounted /home partition and backed up -- for what
>> was not already backed up. fsck has a problem with /dev/sdb3, which
>> might be the swap ...
>>
>> I would like to get the OS back -- the 64 is for experimenting and
>> does not have programs I use (and keyboard is eccentric); can I ?
>> reinstall something? check something else?
>>
>> most of all though, what could have happened? I guess I know just
>> enough to screw up.
>
> I recently had a problem with imagemagick utils filling the disk to 100%
> which makes your problem seem familiar.
That shouldn't cause GRUB to report error 15, which is that the kernel or
initrd image on disk was not found — baring concurrent activity that tried to
update those, I suppose.
> BTW building imagemagick from source cured the issue but both SuSE and
> ubuntu did it
I am curious to know what the specific change this made, and which addressed
the issue, was?
Regards,
Daniel
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