Read error at booting

[Paul Smith]

Dear All,

I am trying to boot in my F10 partition, but just before the grub menu
appears (and it does not show up), I get the following error:

"Read error".

I cannot boot anymore.

Any ideas? Yesterday, everything was working fine.

Thanks in advance,

Paul

[Paul Smith]

On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Paul Smith  wrote:
> I am trying to boot in my F10 partition, but just before the grub menu
> appears (and it does not show up), I get the following error:
>
> "Read error".
>
> I cannot boot anymore.
>
> Any ideas? Yesterday, everything was working fine.

In addition, when I boot in the rescue CD, I get the following error:

"ERROR: pdc: reading /dev/sda[Input/output error]".

Any ideas?

Paul

[Paul Smith]

On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Paul Smith  wrote:
> > I am trying to boot in my F10 partition, but just before the grub menu
> > appears (and it does not show up), I get the following error:
> >
> > "Read error".
> >
> > I cannot boot anymore.
> >
> > Any ideas? Yesterday, everything was working fine.
>
> In addition, when I boot in the rescue CD, I get the following error:
>
> "ERROR: pdc: reading /dev/sda[Input/output error]".

Moreover, in my BIOS, I see:

IDE Channel 0 Master [BzBzBzBzBzBzBzBzBzBz]

Before, I saw something like

IDE Channel 0 Master WCD....

Any ideas?

Paul

[Tom Horsley]

On Sat, 28 Feb 2009 14:00:40 +0000
Paul Smith wrote:
> "ERROR: pdc: reading /dev/sda[Input/output error]".
>
> Any ideas?

'Fraid that sounds a lot like a dead disk, but if you
have unused disk ports you could try plugging the disk
in to a different port, changing the cable, using a
different power plug, and all the simple stuff that
probably won't work, but is easy to check before you
actually decide you have to swap the disk out.

[Mikkel]

Paul Smith wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I am trying to boot in my F10 partition, but just before the grub menu
> appears (and it does not show up), I get the following error:
>
> "Read error".
>
> I cannot boot anymore.
>
> Any ideas? Yesterday, everything was working fine.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Paul

Check your cables and power connections for the drives.

Mikkel

[Paul Smith]

On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Mikkel L. Ellertson
 wrote:
> > I am trying to boot in my F10 partition, but just before the grub menu
> > appears (and it does not show up), I get the following error:
> >
> > "Read error".
> >
> > I cannot boot anymore.
> >
> > Any ideas? Yesterday, everything was working fine.
>
> Check your cables and power connections for the drives.

Thanks, Tom and Mikkel. After having checked the cables connections,
my hard disk is correctly recognized by the BIOS. However, when I try
to boot in it, I get the following error:

Grub Error 17: Cannot Mount Selected Partition

Any ideas?

Paul

[Paul Smith]

On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Paul Smith  wrote:
> > > I am trying to boot in my F10 partition, but just before the grub menu
> > > appears (and it does not show up), I get the following error:
> > >
> > > "Read error".
> > >
> > > I cannot boot anymore.
> > >
> > > Any ideas? Yesterday, everything was working fine.
> >
> > Check your cables and power connections for the drives.
>
> Thanks, Tom and Mikkel. After having checked the cables connections,
> my hard disk is correctly recognized by the BIOS. However, when I try
> to boot in it, I get the following error:
>
> Grub Error 17: Cannot Mount Selected Partition
>
> Any ideas?

Never mind, it is solved now: I went back to BIOS and set it to boot
from the original HDD.

Paul