Failure reading sector 0xfc from 'hd1' error...

codyngr · 12-06-2016, 05:52 AM

Hi

I just installed CentOS 7.1, and I'm getting this error (screenshot attached) after grub menu boot. It stays there for few seconds and starts normal boot process.

The other OS's I have in my PC are Windows 10 and Kali. I've installed all these OSs through USB ie., downloaded ISO and DD them to USB Pen drive.

I don't know what this problem is and so I don't know from where I should start looking for problems.

Kindly guide me as what should I do? I even don't know which file's output I should attach so you can go through that.

Thanks you very much.

business_kid · 12-07-2016, 05:21 AM

"Failure to read" is different to "Bad Sector. . ." type errors. A bad sector gives numbers that don't add up; a failure to read is more fundemental, and doesn't return numbers (i.e. the cpu sees 0xFF everywhere). It points at hardware, or a format error, maybe even a driver, that sort of thing.

sundialsvcs · 12-07-2016, 08:52 AM

Run a "SMART" self-diagnostic on this drive.

Let it run while you're driving to the store today to buy a replacement drive.

c0wb0y · 12-07-2016, 06:59 PM

Output of dmesg, any hardware-issue related messages there? How many disk(s)? computer have? Which is the default boot drive? Where is Grub installed and where the OSs are installed?

codyngr · 12-08-2016, 08:49 AM

Sorry for the delayed response. When I posted this question and hit submit button, I got a message something like "Your question will be posted after administrator moderation..." I waited several hours for my thread to be posted, and when it didn't appear, i just gave up. I thought because I have attached photo from my mobile phone, my question got rejected automatically by forum software.

Now that its posted, here are my details:

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Originally Posted by c0wb0y

any hardware-issue related messages there?

No

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Originally Posted by c0wb0y

How many disk(s)? computer have?

One. (hd0)

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Originally Posted by c0wb0y

Which is the default boot drive?

CentOS 7.1 in /dev/sda1

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Originally Posted by c0wb0y

Where is Grub installed and where the OSs are installed?

CentOS 7.1 = /boot/efi/EFI/centos/grub.cfg
Windows 10 = /boot/efi/EFI/Microsoft/
Kali = /boot/efi/EFI/kali/grub.cfg

Partition structure:

Code:

# lsblk -o name,size,type,fstype,label,partlabel /dev/sda1 /dev/sda5 /dev/sda6 /dev/sda7 /dev/sda9
NAME       SIZE TYPE FSTYPE      LABEL  PARTLABEL
sda1       500M part vfat        Efi    EFI System Partition
sda5      59.6G part ntfs        Win    Windows 10 Pro
sda6       450M part ntfs               
sda7         8G part swap        Swap   Linux swap
sda9       332G part LVM2_member        Linux LVM
├─vg-cen    20G lvm  xfs         CentOS 
├─vg-hom   150G lvm  xfs         Home   
├─vg-fix   100G lvm  crypto_LUKS Passwd       
└─vg-kal    62G lvm  ext4        Kali

DMESG:

Code:

# dmesg | grep -i 'error\|warn\|hd0\|hd1'
[    6.104886] ACPI Warning: SystemIO range 0x000000000000f000-0x000000000000f01f conflicts with OpRegion 0x000000000000f000-0x000000000000f00f (\_SB_.PCI0.SBUS.SMBI) (20130517/utaddress-254)
[  786.181208] nouveau E[   PFIFO][0000:01:00.0] CACHE_ERROR - ch 5 [chrome[4137]] subc 0 mthd 0x0060 data 0xbeef0201

No results

Code:

# grep -rI 'hd1' /boot/*
# grep -rI 'hd1' /etc/*