I ended up writing the laptop off :( Had a few people look at it including a BIOS geek and the general verdict is beyond economical repair.
Anyway, I see there are a few more reports coming in, all Toshiba's affected a very low number of reboots after installing Ubuntu. So, perhaps there is something connected to Ubuntu here? How do we re-open the bug by changing the status back to New as Connor Imes suggested in comment #3 ? If Ubuntu is bricking laptops I think it should be investigated ASAP. I no longer have the laptop so wont be following this anymore, but I'll document what I found out: The laptop just displays the error message instantly after power on, no POST checks, no attempt to boot from HD, CD or USB flash. As it is asking for a "maintenance disk" I tried a USB floppy drive and you can hear it is accessing the floppy when you press any key, but nothing happens and the error remains. I tried a couple of DOS boot disks, even putting the BIOS update files on one. The maintenance disk is apparently "simply a floppy with rewritten code on the first few sectors that bypassed any kind of checksum or self- diagnostic." - http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/50509-35-toshiba- 445cdx-bios-damage-error-message Whether that would even help and whether there are any disks even in existence, I don't know. I have searched a few common places for ISO and images etc, nothing. The only other thing that I changed is that I had installed a new hard disk and RAM before installing Ubuntu. Did anyone else make hardware changes before the install? Thats it folks, good luck and I hope you all get your machines to boot again! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/507723 Title: New Install 9.10 No boot Bios block3 damaged error. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
