[SOLVED] "Media test failure, check cable". How serious is this? Fried disk or just fried bootloader?
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No, this was after a normal shutdown. But this machine frequently shuts down by itself without warning when low in juice. When that happens, I can't switch it on again unless I plug it in first. It's never caused a disk corruption though.
Just for info: I installed memtest86 and added it to my LILO menu. Just now I ran one pass. It took 22 minutes and found no errors, so I think the problem was probably a one-off.
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