[mythtv-users] complete system meltdown

[Ian Evans]

On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 8:33 PM, Joseph DeGraw <coffee412 at comcast.net>wrote:

>  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.
>
>

> Are you sure your not booting to 'maintenance mode'? Might be you need to
> fsck your main drive?
>
>
>
Who knows? :-) when I connected to my onboard graphics card and my desktop
monitor, it displayed "out of range" even when trying to get to the grub
menu via shift. I'm pretty sure I hit ctrl-x after that and got to a
command line. But a subsequent reboot took me back to a command line login.

I'm pretty sure the graphics card hasn't gone belly up. Before I
disconnected from the TV, I was able to see the bios once during a reboot,
but after a subsequent reboot (to try and get some files of the dying
drive, I suddenly was not getting a signal. So I'm wondering if it somehow
"lost" the card. Egads...don't know how to get it back working again.
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