[Solved, sort of] Ugh... Borked MBR??
Well, I shut down, and went to start back up, and now, no matter where I try to boot from, be it CD or HDD, This is the output:
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L 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 BIOS Posts, but it says: Loading from CD-Rom... or Booting from HDD-0... then I get that output. Is there anything to be done, or is everything borked? BTW: Slack10, if it matters. |
Well your going to have to boot from a CD or Floppy somehow to rescue your system. Perhaps your Slackware CD is bad, if its not booting from it.
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I just burned the disk seconds before I tried booting from it.
EDIT: I got it to at least try to boot.... "Boot failed, press any key to retry." =( (From the CDROM) HDD still gives me that. /EDIT |
That looks like a LILO problem. Most likely, you upgraded your kernel and forgot to run 'lilo'. Now, you'll need to boot your system from a cdrom, chroot into your hard drive, and re-run 'lilo' to fix the MBR.
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System has been running for over a year, no updates =(
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It has booted to CDROM after third try, with nothing changed. Something is fishy here....
Nevermind. Check this out: Code:
Disk error 80, AX = 4280, drive 9F |
That looks like DOS-style assembler issues (aka, not a good thing). Could be failing hardware potentially, but for your sake, I hope not. What kind of a CD are you booting off of?
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Slackware bootdisk 1.
And I've tried the Bare.i file. It doesnt work. |
Also, a 1-floppy-disk type distro.
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Have you tried booting from a LiveCD like Knoppix?
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Not yet.
I heard some funny spin-noises, at first I thought they were the PS, or the fans, but after taking the side of the case off, I noticed they were coming from the HDD vicinity. I got this computer from a friend, complete with a 60gig DeathStar..... Well, it ran fine for months, but it seems to have lived up to its legacy =( Is there anything I can do? I'd really like to clone this drive..... or at least my hundreds of hours of admin setting =( |
Well, you might be able to mount it in another machine and rescue (some of) your data.
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Well... I have a win98 install on a 4g drive on that computer......
and a winxp box, but I don t have another linux box =( maybe if I let it sit in a staticbag for a week or two it'll rest enough for me to FTP into it from my XP box and download about 10gigs of admin stuff =( |
STICK THE HDD IN THE FREEZER
If it is going out, sometimes it works for a few minutes when its cold...make sure to avoid condensation though. |
How do I avoid condensation?
Stick it in a ziplock prior to freezing it? EDIT Gah... all I need is about 5x - 3 to 100k or less text files. |
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