grub problem? disk problem? howto fix it
Here is the problem: I have a server, running debian sarge w/ a couple
of packages from unstable. I believe it was running 2.6.10. I logged
into it after about a week and the server was having problems -
couldn't "su", couldn't read system mail, etc. So, I killed what
appeared to be some problematic processes (a bunch of cron jobs) and
tried a reboot. Nothing happened. So I hard rebooted the computer. When
it didn't come back up, I attached a monitor and the computer is stuck
at a grub "error 25".
What is the best way to fix this? Should I try to boot into something
like knoppix and then modify grub on the hard drive? Any suggestions on
what, exactly, I need to fix?
Also, since the machine had always run and rebooted fine before, could
this be a symptom of disk failure? Besides e2fsck (it is an ext3
filesystem), what else could I do to check it and fix it?
Thanks,
Richard
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