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Old 07-09-2012, 02:46 AM   #1
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Ubuntu 12.04 Will not boot


Hello

I have recently installed Ubuntu 12.04 on a secondary partition on my laptop. I have rescued and reinstalled at least 6 times after wiping and remaking the partition. Every time I install linux it completes successfully. Now, when I select the OS from GRUB it crashes after giving quite a long list of failed device connection errors SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 310).

The thing is that I can boot fine to my windows partition. On the previous hard drive I had inside this laptop I did not have this problem. The last Hard drive recently died and replaced it with this 7200 500gb drive. Ever since I have been getting this error.
Thanks!

Also, is there a way to record the output to show you guys?
 
Old 07-09-2012, 08:59 AM   #2
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In a terminal, run the command dmesg. If you see the errors you mentioned, then capture the output: dmesg > booterrors.txt. You can then edit the file to remove anything not pertinent to the problem.

Also, show the output of fdisk -l to show us the partition structure of the drive.
 
Old 07-09-2012, 11:47 AM   #3
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It is my understanding that you can't actually get to the Desktop, right!?

To give us information, I guess the very rough way would be to take a picture of your screen when the errors show off.
However, a more "elegant" way would be to boot from any Live Cd (see Debian Live project for example), which should automatically mount your drives, then run
Code:
sudo fdisk -l
and show us the output. Moreover, try to see if any of /var/log/kern.log, /var/log/messages or /var/log/syslog contain text with the errors you want to report.

Good luck!
 
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Old 07-10-2012, 01:59 AM   #4
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It is my understanding that you can't actually get to the Desktop, right!?

To give us information, I guess the very rough way would be to take a picture of your screen when the errors show off.
However, a more "elegant" way would be to boot from any Live Cd (see Debian Live project for example), which should automatically mount your drives, then run
Code:
sudo fdisk -l
and show us the output. Moreover, try to see if any of /var/log/kern.log, /var/log/messages or /var/log/syslog contain text with the errors you want to report.

Good luck!
Yea, I can't get anywhere at all. After choosing the verbose ption in grub, there are a bunch of messages that state that ata device rejected some sort of command. Then it goes on to state ata5 and ata6 link down. This a laptop mind you.
 
Old 07-10-2012, 02:08 AM   #5
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http://youtu.be/tqr_XzeB8Xk Shows the entire log I get when I log in.

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Old 07-10-2012, 02:34 AM   #6
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ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x3c2b0450

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 2048 234438655 117218304 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2 234440702 976771071 371165185 5 Extended
Partition 2 does not start on physical sector boundary.
/dev/sda5 970489856 976771071 3140608 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 234440704 970489855 368024576 83 Linux

Partition table entries are not in disk order

Disk /dev/sdb: 4000 MB, 4000317440 bytes
124 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1016 cylinders, total 7813120 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00012b01

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 62 7811007 3905473 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)

This is from the live CD. I hope you guys can help me figure this out. I very stumped.
 
Old 07-11-2012, 12:28 AM   #7
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Old 07-11-2012, 12:33 AM   #8
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Your partition table is corrupt or in error (same thing). Windows ignores certain partition table errors, Linux is more fussy. You'll have to probably delete all those partitions and start again. Why are you reinstalling over and over again?
 
Old 07-11-2012, 12:49 AM   #9
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Whats the model of the laptop?
 
Old 07-11-2012, 01:25 AM   #10
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I can delete all partitions. Not a problem. Its just an HP something something rather. I replaced the hard drive recently since the other one had a header that was starting to fail. I only got these problems after I laid an image down on the new drive with windows, then installed linux after on the free space of the partition.

I was reinstalling because I wasnt sure if I had a cupport version on my USB drive.

Last edited by Dasfiter; 07-11-2012 at 01:26 AM.
 
Old 07-11-2012, 02:35 AM   #11
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After deleting everything and reinstalling linux, this is the result:

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000d2397

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 2048 970485759 485241856 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 970487806 976771071 3141633 5 Extended
Partition 2 does not start on physical sector boundary.
/dev/sda5 970487808 976771071 3141632 82 Linux swap / Solaris
 
  


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