[GTALUG] Cannot open rescue disk

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 11:49:05AM -0400, Ken Heard via talk wrote:
> So I downloaded Knoppix 8.2, burned it to a DVD.  It did indeed boot the
> offending computer.  I was able to access my /home directory.
> 
> I then tried again to boot the computer from the hard drives which have
> Jessie installed.  (There are two hard drives which form a RAID1 device.)
> This time the boot completed, no more 99s!
> 
> During subsequent bootings from these drives however, using both the
> installed Jessie and the Knoppix, after the message 'Verifying DMI Pool Data
> ...' was displayed it was a long time before they were detected. So it is
> possible that those drives, or perhaps one of them, are close to failing.
> They have been in use since 2011.  Testing them is consequently next on my
> troubleshooting my agenda.

A delay after the DMI pool data message is usually a case of a dying
disk or corrupt boot sector.

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Len Sorensen