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Alan E. Davis wrote: |
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> Thank you, Neil: |
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> Neither of these worked: |
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> # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1 |
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> dd: writing `/dev/hda': Input/output error |
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> 1+0 records in |
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> 0+0 records out |
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> 0 bytes (0 B) copied, 3.96744 seconds, 0.0 kB/s |
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> gparted shows the whole disk as unallocated. When I try to install a |
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> new partition, it wants to install a disklabel. The attempt fails. |
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> What I don't understand---this happened after installing Sabayon on |
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> /dev/hda8. The first time I downloaded sabayon (mini x86) the md5sum |
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> was incorrect, but the install tried to work. The second time, with a |
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> correct md5sum, I tried to install on /dev/hda1, with errors on that |
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> partition. Then, I reinstalled on /dev/hda8. The install seemed to |
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> go really quickly, perhaps TOO quickly. Then, ever since rebooting, |
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> the system knows there's a disk. But something isn't right. |
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> I am starting to wonder whether a virus or trojan was hitchhiking on |
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> the blown iso download? Very seldom does wget fail. I think the |
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> download may have been resumed from a different mirror. |
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> I don't know where to go from here. Maybe try some other install cds. |
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> Maybe back to a gentoo CD. |
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> Thank you again. |
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> Alan |
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> On 12/23/06, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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>> On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 01:23:13 +0000, Alan E. Davis wrote: |
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>> > Can anyone point me to the right literature on line or other help? It |
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>> > could be a hardware problem, but one suspects the partition table and |
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>> > boot record. Gpart was unable to determine the sector size. |
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>> Try running cfdisk with the -z option. This ignores the MBR and starts |
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>> afresh with a blank one. If that fails, try zeroing the MBR with |
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>> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdX bs=512 count=1 |
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>> If it still fails, it would appear to be a broken disk. |
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>> -- |
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>> Neil Bothwick |
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>> To most people solutions mean finding the answers. But to chemists |
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>> solutions are things that are still all mixed up. |
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I suspect your HDD is dead. Send the boot messages here - they may |
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contain some useful info. |
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dmesg > dmsg.log #and attach "dmsg.log" |
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Best regards, |
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Daniel |
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