[mythtv-users] complete system meltdown

Joseph DeGraw coffee412 at comcast.net
Tue Feb 11 01:33:31 UTC 2014


On 02/10/2014 08:19 PM, Ian Evans wrote:
> What a day for my FE/BE!
>
> 1 mth old WD drive (2nd storage drive) died today with servo messages, 
> clicking etc.
>
> Suddenly upon rebooting, my tv wasn't showing the bios,OS load, frontend.
>
> Attaching the mythbox to my desktop monitor didn't work (using the 
> graphics card.)
>
> Dsub cable from the onboard to my desktop monitor showed BIOS but now 
> I'm booting to a command line instead of myth loading automatically. 
> How'd that happen?
>
> I'm not sure if Mythbuntu is seeing both the onboard graphics and the 
> graphics card.
>
> What I thought was going to be a simple remove the drive for RMA has 
> turned into a complete nightmare. Will be heading over to askubuntu 
> shortly, but if anyone has ever had any of this happen to them as 
> well, pointers are welcome for troubleshooting.
>
> Thanks!
>
>
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Are you sure your not booting to 'maintenance mode'? Might be you need 
to fsck your main drive?

jdegraw
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