[PLUG] boot failure

[benjamin barber]

it sounds more like intrusion than hardware failure.

On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 9:11 AM, Denis Heidtmann <denis.heidtmann at gmail.com>
wrote:

> The precursor may or may not be related.
>
> I discovered that my wife's gmail had been accessed by an iphone on Nov,
> 1.  We have no iphone, and were home alone at the time listed.  So I
> changed the pass word.  Then tried to open firefox.  Would not load.
> Nothing would work, except the mouse pointer would move around.  Had to use
> the power button to restart.  Now I get error: attempt to read or write
> outside of disk 'hd0'.  Entering rescue mode.  grub rescue>
>
> Yesterday the computer froze in a similar fashion when my wife was looking
> at email in evolution.  A power switch intervention was required, but it
> booted fine at that time.
>
> So the two incidents point to hardware problems or intrusion?
>
> I have googled for grub rescue recovery, but what I found was aimed at
> people with more understanding than I have.
>
> Are there suggestions that someone here can offer?
>
> thanks,
> -Denis
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