[wplug] hd problem

[Brian Medley]

On Thu, May 01, 2003 at 09:21:16AM -0400, Alexandros Papadopoulos wrote:

> > c) Reboot and get "init not found" or equivalent error.
> 
> I don't buy that. Unless they took out the *HD* that init was trying to 
> boot from, this is extremely unlikely to happen.

To be sure, it is very strange.

> > d) Put old CD-Writer back in.
> >
> > e) Problem persists.
> 
> To be expected, since taking out a CD writer couldn't have crippled a 
> Linux installation. Something else happened there.
> 
> Did you try running badblocks?

No, I wasn't aware of this utility...will give it a try...

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