- Dec 30, 2003
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I've had an Athlon xp 2600+ in the garage running Ubuntu 8.04 acting as a content filter with Dan's Guardian, well last week I thought it would be nice to set it up a samba server for a little extra storage space, I installed samba and some updates then rebooted the machine, everything went fine but it hung up during the reboot. I couldn't get it to boot in safe mode it would hang at a line saying:
[32.391664] ata1.00: 78165360 sectors, multi 16: lba48
I dinked around trying to get it to boot off a live CD and couldn't get it to boot into Ubuntu 8.04, 10.04, mint 9, Fedora 14, or OpenSUSE (don't remember the version.) A little troubleshooting and I realized the CD drive was not working right, I moved the disc to the CD-RW drive and things were better. Ubuntu 10.04 would act like it was going to load but quit with a message about not being able to find the live media. 8.04 had a less descriptive error, fedora, mint and opensuse just wouldn't work. All discs work fine in my desktop PC. I tried taking the harddrive out and putting it in an external USB enclosure to backup the config files and couldn't get my desktop to recognize the drive in windows 7 or Mint, it recognized another drive in the same enclosure with both OSes.
I'm thinking I have 2 possible problems, 1 the MB has a problem since I can't boot from any drive or live CD, 2 the HDD and the MB are shot. Anything else to try before calling the PC a piece of scrap? I'll try connecting the HDD internally in my desktop instead of using the external enclosure, as I recall this enclosure was a little finicky. I'd really like to recover the config files for Dan's Guardian, I've spent the last 2 years setting up the phrase lists.
[32.391664] ata1.00: 78165360 sectors, multi 16: lba48
I dinked around trying to get it to boot off a live CD and couldn't get it to boot into Ubuntu 8.04, 10.04, mint 9, Fedora 14, or OpenSUSE (don't remember the version.) A little troubleshooting and I realized the CD drive was not working right, I moved the disc to the CD-RW drive and things were better. Ubuntu 10.04 would act like it was going to load but quit with a message about not being able to find the live media. 8.04 had a less descriptive error, fedora, mint and opensuse just wouldn't work. All discs work fine in my desktop PC. I tried taking the harddrive out and putting it in an external USB enclosure to backup the config files and couldn't get my desktop to recognize the drive in windows 7 or Mint, it recognized another drive in the same enclosure with both OSes.
I'm thinking I have 2 possible problems, 1 the MB has a problem since I can't boot from any drive or live CD, 2 the HDD and the MB are shot. Anything else to try before calling the PC a piece of scrap? I'll try connecting the HDD internally in my desktop instead of using the external enclosure, as I recall this enclosure was a little finicky. I'd really like to recover the config files for Dan's Guardian, I've spent the last 2 years setting up the phrase lists.