Re: Help! Grub is broken
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 16:42:07 +0800, 明覺 (shi.minjue@gmail.com) wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 4:30 PM, Thorny <thorntreehome@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > > It all happened suddenly. I was editing a file in gedit 3 minutes ago,
> > and
> > > when I was saving it, it said "readonly filesystem". then i restarted my
> > > machine, it ccould not shutdown for it said it's a readonly file system.
> > > then i pressed reset to force it restart, then it stopped at "grup
> > > loading. please wait... error 17", what happened to my machine, is it a
> > > virus? how to recover my system? thanks
> >
> > It is not going to be a virus.
>
>
> If it's not a virus, why my computer suddenly become broken, I do not
> understand, i guess it should be a virus.
Do you really? Well, please don't spread it by posting to this list using html.
http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct
> > If it was my system, first thing I would do after booting up the Live CD
> > as poster David suggested would be to run a filesystem check on the
> > unmounted partition that is your root partition. Perhaps you might want to
> > read the manual page for fsck previous to issuing the command.
It's good advice, you know.
> My platform is debian sid AMD64 gnome.
Sid is the unstable distribution and things do break from time to time.
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