[mythtv-users] complete system meltdown

[Ian Evans]

On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 9:05 PM, George Mari
<george_mythusers at mari1938.org>wrote:

>
> On 2/10/14, 7:46 PM, Ian Evans wrote:
>
>  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?
>
>  Your graphics card should still work, but if it doesn't seem to be
> working, I would test it in another machine if you have one available.
> Your missing/broken disk could have prevented it from booting normally into
> desktop/graphics mode.  Once you resolve that, even with the missing disk,
> you should still boot to your desktop.
>
> Is it possible you suffered a power surge that caused this?
>
>
> It's on a surge protector. I think I just had a bum WD green drvie.

Removed the drive and the graphics card was working again. Will try to put
the dying drive  in an dock and see if I can get some old files off it.

Thanks everyone for helping me during my meltdown. Huge WAF...Bachelor and
Olympics today! :-)

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