[plug] Error 25: Disk read error

[Shannon Carver]

W.Kenworthy wrote:
> you may need toi rerun lilo or grub.  Is it one of those that is
> issueing the error (like it cant find the kernel?)
>
> BillK
>
> On Sun, 2006-04-16 at 17:54 +0800, Alex Nordstrom wrote:
>   
>> Saturday, 15 April 2006 23:29, Alex Nordstrom wrote:
>>     
>>> Put the disk back in the clonee, booted it up no problem and changed
>>> the hostname to be different from the cloner. Rebooted, and now I get
>>> greeted with "Error 25: Disk read error".
>>>
>>> What did I do wrong? How can I fix it, preferably without doing it
>>> all over again?
>>>       
>> Today I put the disk back as a secondary drive in the machine from which 
>> it was cloned. All partitions are mountable and appear normal. A 
>> badblocks scan on the whole device turns up nothing.
>>
>> So that seems to rule out physical error (sure, they're brand new, but 
>> they *are* WD disks).
>>
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Yea, especially if the drive is reading/mounting correctly, I'd say its 
a Grub/LILO MBR/Boot sector problem.  Shove the HDD in a PC with a 
rescue disc and rerun lilo /dev/sdaX, depending of course on what device 
name/numbers your SATA discs are.