cholericfun
August 17th, 2010, 04:36 PM
Hi all
i finally decided to updgrade from Hardy Heron to Lucid Lynx.
for this i made a backup of my old install, then i couldnt find my Lucid CD so i used a Karmic one to partition my old ext3 to ext4. There were some errors but after trying a few times it worked. Installed Karmic, rebooted (worked fine), downloaded all updates - (did NOT reboot to let updates take effect) and upgraded to Lucid.
Everything went fine so far. Now when i try to boot into Lucid the system hangs, i've also got a windowsXP partition on there so i tried booting that,
first grub tells me
Error 29: Disk write error
then trying again windows seems to boot but it takes much longer than it should and seems to hang.
Then i tried Karmic and Lucid LiveCD (which i found in the meantime)
none of the LiveCDs make it to boot after about 20 minutes. (previously they worked fine)
looking at the errors it seems to be something about the harddrive.
Why the harddrive would stop the LiveCD booting is a mystery to me but the same messages appear when i select Recovery from the Grub menu so i guess the problem is related.
some boot-up errors
Sense: SCSI parity error ..
end_request I/O error, dev,sda, sector 17377...
lost page write due ti I/O error on dm-4
this sort of thing goes on for ever, every now and then it detects my USB mouse again and again so it seems to be a loop going around and around.
At the moment i'm on a Hardy LiveCD, earlyer i tried removing the ext4 partition but it had errors there as well and i can't touch the partition at all. (i can access the ntfs partitions)
sudo fdisk -ul
gives
Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders, total 312581808 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x69205244
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 63 63103319 31551628+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 63103320 165501629 51199155 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 165501630 169550009 2024190 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda4 169550010 312576704 71513347+ 83 Linux
after i try to format with Hardy gparted i am not able to find my hard drive at all anymore so i cant see how i could try to install Lucid again.
i haven't searched through all the threads that look similar to this but was hoping that while i'm searching someone else may have a good idea.
Its a bit annoying that i cant use the LiveCDs and after formating to ext4 i cant access that partition with Hardy either...
thanks
i finally decided to updgrade from Hardy Heron to Lucid Lynx.
for this i made a backup of my old install, then i couldnt find my Lucid CD so i used a Karmic one to partition my old ext3 to ext4. There were some errors but after trying a few times it worked. Installed Karmic, rebooted (worked fine), downloaded all updates - (did NOT reboot to let updates take effect) and upgraded to Lucid.
Everything went fine so far. Now when i try to boot into Lucid the system hangs, i've also got a windowsXP partition on there so i tried booting that,
first grub tells me
Error 29: Disk write error
then trying again windows seems to boot but it takes much longer than it should and seems to hang.
Then i tried Karmic and Lucid LiveCD (which i found in the meantime)
none of the LiveCDs make it to boot after about 20 minutes. (previously they worked fine)
looking at the errors it seems to be something about the harddrive.
Why the harddrive would stop the LiveCD booting is a mystery to me but the same messages appear when i select Recovery from the Grub menu so i guess the problem is related.
some boot-up errors
Sense: SCSI parity error ..
end_request I/O error, dev,sda, sector 17377...
lost page write due ti I/O error on dm-4
this sort of thing goes on for ever, every now and then it detects my USB mouse again and again so it seems to be a loop going around and around.
At the moment i'm on a Hardy LiveCD, earlyer i tried removing the ext4 partition but it had errors there as well and i can't touch the partition at all. (i can access the ntfs partitions)
sudo fdisk -ul
gives
Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders, total 312581808 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x69205244
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 63 63103319 31551628+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 63103320 165501629 51199155 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 165501630 169550009 2024190 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda4 169550010 312576704 71513347+ 83 Linux
after i try to format with Hardy gparted i am not able to find my hard drive at all anymore so i cant see how i could try to install Lucid again.
i haven't searched through all the threads that look similar to this but was hoping that while i'm searching someone else may have a good idea.
Its a bit annoying that i cant use the LiveCDs and after formating to ext4 i cant access that partition with Hardy either...
thanks