Boot problem

[aged hippy]

I've suddenly developed a major boot problem - the blue loading bar gets to the end, then i'm dumped back to the black screen with the following message:

/dev/sdb:
Setting advanced Power Management to level OXFE (254)
HDIO_DRIVE_CMD failed:
Input/output error.
running local boot scripts (/etc/rc.local)

Can someone help me out, Please.

[flarson]

Re: Boot problem

Did you put hdparm commands in your /etc/rc.local?

[aged hippy]

Re: Boot problem

I don't know what they are.
The file says (after the commented part):

exit 0

and ends there.

[aged hippy]

Re: Boot problem

It seems that Hardy has developed a problem with sdb2, which is odd, since i can access it alright with the Jaunty installation.

[doctordruidphd]

Re: Boot problem

You didn't by any chance format /dev/sdb2 as ext4?

[aged hippy]

Re: Boot problem

Thank you for the help, doctordruidphd and mando_hacker, but i decided on a radical cure.... re-installation.