[ltp] Crashes on boot with new HD

[Harold Pimentel]

--- On Tue, 10/6/09, Richard Neill <rn214@hermes.cam.ac.uk> wrote:

> From: Richard Neill <rn214@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
> Subject: Re: [ltp] Crashes on boot with new HD
> To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
> Date: Tuesday, October 6, 2009, 7:41 PM
> 
> 
> Harold Pimentel wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I own a T61 and I recently installed a new hard
> drive.
> 
> I suspect this isn't the problem. Once in Linux, use
> smartctl to double check that the drive is OK.
> 
> > 
> > Sometimes when I boot into Ubuntu it crashes before
> the actual OS loads. I have no idea if it's the new drive,
> or maybe a bad installation of ubuntu and I'm not even sure
> how to diagnose it.
> > 
> > If anyone has any suggestions I'd greatly appreciate.
> Here is a photo of where it usually hangs:
> > 
> > http://ecs.fullerton.edu/~pimentel/pics/laptoperr.jpg
> > 
> 
> Interesting that it is in the ACPI portion of the boot. I
> had trouble with that too (though in my case, it was a
> faulty motherboard).
> 
> 
> > Oh yeah, I don't have an issue with Windows 7 at all.
> 
> So *probably* not dodgy hardware.
> 

Honestly if anything I expect the drive to be bad, as the old drive had no problems for about a year and a half. the only reason I swapped was for more storage space.

> 
> 
> Does this happen almost every time you boot Linux or just
> rarely?
> 
> Can you see any pattern to it?
> 

It happens very often. I would say about 60-70% of the time. I've noticed that it usually does so when I restart after being on for a few minutes and being "warmed up." 

> When it crashes, do you have to power-cycle the machine, or
> does it respond to, say, Alt-Sysrq-{R,S,E,I,U,B}?
> 

I usually power cycle the machine. I haven't tried any of those key combinations, only CTRL-ALT-DEL

> Which Ubuntu version are you using? Could you try out
> another one? (the easiest way is to boot the live
> environment from a USB key; unetbootin
> makes this very easy.)
> 

It's on ubuntu 9.04. I tried loading kubuntu 9.04 live cd earlier and I it gave me a pnpbios error, so I reboot with pnpbios=off and it started fine.

The new drive is a 7200 RPM, and the only a 5400rpm. This sounds like a rather ludicrous question, but could that be an issue?

I am currently running spinrite on the entire disk to see if there are errors (I already ran fsck and found none). it says it will be done in about 20 hours :X

For now I put the old drive in and haven't seen any issues yet..  


Thanks,

Harold

> Richard
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