OK, it's been a couple weeks and I was finally able to get back to this. I was able to successfully reinstall 24.04 and my /cifs terabyte hard drive is fully recognized again and I can access all...
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OK, it's been a couple weeks and I was finally able to get back to this. I was able to successfully reinstall 24.04 and my /cifs terabyte hard drive is fully recognized again and I can access all...
I've always updated to the most recent release and I've never had problems this bad before. But it shouldn't be too hard to format my / partition and reinstall 24.04, since /home is on a separate...
What I mean is, does it permanently change the superblock, and if so, how do I find out what it's using as the current superblock so I can change it back?
I tried installing rEFInd and rebooted into my BIOS, but I didn't see anything other than the usual UEFI disk, UEFI USB drive, UEFI network, etc. And I didn't see any new boot options, either. ...
I wasn't sure what that would do, and I didn't want to make any changes without understanding of how to undo them. Especially since it works just fine in 24.04.
Ah, good idea! I tried a LiveUSB Ubuntu 24.04 and I was able to read the disk, no problem.
BIOS definitely recognizes it. Here's the output from fsck:
$ sudo fsck /dev/sda1
fsck from...
Hmm. Makes sense. I bought it new in 2008, so it's possible it could be on its way out. I do have GRC's SpinRite, so hopefully running that on my hard drive will help.
It's not a server install. I just named it /cifs because I had thought about using it as a shared drive but I decided against it. I ran the command so that it would show the 1 TB drive's entry in...
I have a 1 TB internal hard drive that has had no problems at all until I upgraded to 24.10. When I rebooted after upgrading, it didn't recognize it at all. I rebooted a few more times, but this...