Hello list,

as you guess I am having serious boot problems, grub loading fails at stage
1.5 with "Error 17".

I did not install/re-install anything, resize partitions or anything else
could do something wrong. I was trasferring data from my usb HD when the
process stopped (input/output error) and the system went completely frozen.
>From that moment on I can not boot from HD.

Using knoppix I can read all partitions... exept /home and /

I tried to reinstall grub on MBR using the ubuntu studio rescue (apologize
for that :-) ) and SGD (Super Grub Disk).
The former stops during device mapping, showing partitions like /dev/sd1,
/dev/sd2 and so on which is quite absurd, the latter is unable to install
grub on the MBR (for the same problem I guess ...) and to boot any of the
two OS (XP is there, but I do not boot it from ages )

I would prefer not to do a fresh install if not necessary even if my data
are backed up on a safe partition.

Any ideas? Can I resume my lenny?

regards
raffaele

Cassiel:
>
> I did not install/re-install anything, resize partitions or anything else
> could do something wrong. I was trasferring data from my usb HD when the
> process stopped (input/output error) and the system went completely frozen.
>> From that moment on I can not boot from HD.
>
> Using knoppix I can read all partitions... exept /home and /

Sounds like your hard drive is dying. Boot from a rescue disk and fsck
all filesystems. smartctl might give some clues what's wrong with the
disk. In any case make sure you have backups of everything you'd rather
not lose.

> I would prefer not to do a fresh install if not necessary even if my data
> are backed up on a safe partition.

There are disk migration howtos for linux irrespective of the
distribution you are using. You might want to follow them to move your
system to a new disk and then analyze what's wrong with your current
disk.

J.
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