[mythtv-users] complete system meltdown

[Ian Evans]

On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 8:42 PM, George Mari
<george_mythusers at mari1938.org>wrote:

>
> On 2/10/14, 7:19 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.
>>
> [deleted]
>
> Likely cause is your hard drive that died was listed in your /etc/fstab
> file to automatically mount on boot.  Now that it is not available, you are
> being dumped to a command line (on my Fedora box it's called the emergency
> shell, or something like that.)
>
> If you are comfortable enough at the command line,  you can comment out
> the line for that disk in your /etc/fstab file, and then reboot.
>
>
Yeah, no problem handling the command line. So I'll comment that line out.
How do I get it to find my graphics card again?
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