Disk

On Sunday (03/10/2010) my laptop had a bad crash. The screen went blank; I could still see the cursor and move it around, but could do nothing else. I could not even log in on a virtual console. After I typed the user name it came straight back with a login prompt again. I rebooted, grub loaded, Linux ran, the initramfs loaded and started and then it moaned about not being able to mount the root filesystem and dropped me to a prompt.

I learned over the years to read the old ide subsystem errors for Linux and generally am able to get a feel for the sort of hardware error that’s coming. However I have yet to really get a feel for the libata errors, I’m not really used to reading the errors. A friend linked me to a page on the libata wiki.