[mythtv-users] OT: SATA errors

[Clay]

I was able to get fsck to work from the LiveCD using sudo and didn't have to go this route.  I'm going to try the power supply route first, and maybe put the OS hard drive into another machine and see if I can see it.

The weird thing with my SATA issue is that when it boots and I get all of those errors, I get dropped to a tty session and I'm prompted for my login.  Nothing is accepted.  I've tried my user name with the correct password, my user name with no password, root with the correct password, and root with no password.  All fail with "incorrect login".  So I can't even do any maintenance checks on the box right now.  It makes me think that the HD is spanked since the OS has no clue that any users even exist.


[jumping in in the middle so pardon my clueless input]
I ran into (what I assume is) a similar issue a while back when the BIOS decided to boot to the wrong HDD. I had one HDD with Intrepid on it and another I was trying Fedora, Debian, etc. distros on. 
Gave up on the other distros and formatted that drive blank.
One day I booted, apparently the bootloader found something since it kicked me out to a maintenance console.
Spent hours fscking and diddling with fstab thinking it was confusion on where /boot was.
Light bulb came on one night, checked and switched the BIOS and it fired right up.
Sure glad I didn't flatline and start over... like I did last night with my DVB slave.
Only to find a kernel upgrade left the fw behind which is why the cards stopped working.
Oh well, I was due for a re-scan anyway.