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Cannot boot from GRUB Karmic amd64 "logical block" and "logical error" and terminal login

Asked by Myroslav

I was having problems loading a proprietory hardware driver on Karmic amd 64. Once I thought I had loaded version Nvidia 185, I logged off as requested. Since then I have been unable to log back in from GRUB. I get lines of text with random numbers and the words "logical block" and "logical error" and a text-line request for username and then password. Not being an expert with ubuntu, I have no idea what to do next.

I am currently using karmic from a live cd. I am able to access the files on my hard drive. My personal files are backed up. My programs are not.

What can I do to save my system?

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Best actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Under the live CD run:

sudo fdisk -l

The star next to the partition name is the bootable partition (e.g. /dev/sda1. I will use this in the examples below. YOURS MAY BE DIFERENT so use what your system says.)

You should now run:

sudo fsck -a /dev/sda1

and it will make sure the system is healthy. Then reboot and hopefully you will be ok.

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Myroslav (mgalan) said : 		#2

Thank you for the response. I was having some other problems with my setup and noone on this forum could help, so I saved all my personal data to a usb disc and reinstalled karmic. Even though I hate accepting defeat, I'm glad I did this time. The program boots faster and everything is humming along more smoothly.

I am going to close this thread as solved. Thanks again.