[PLUG] boot failure

Denis Heidtmann denis.heidtmann at gmail.com
Wed Nov 4 20:00:43 UTC 2015


So what to do?

I found references on the web in responses to the 'grub rescue>' prompt
that said  'set' and 'ls' were useful, so:
ls:
(hd0) (hd0,msdos5) (hd0,msdos1) (fd0)
set:
cmdpath=(hd0)
prefix=(hd0,msdos1)/boot/grub
root=hd0,msdos1

Does this help at all?

-Denis

On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 9:19 AM, benjamin barber <starworks5 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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