Thrice in the past year have I had 23.+ end up here after the MX splash. These were 2.5" spinners being used as data drives, were swapped across machines for file transfer or running Linux without issue for several weeks. I tried rebooting and Live MX23.6 boot repair including the initrd rebuild option. As sdb on another MX system I also did testdisk and fsck. It all seemed to be something wrong with the table of the root partition which doesn't show on Dolphin. Had it been possible to restore, I would have at least been able to review the tabs, history and bookmarks of the LibreWolf appimage they had, etc.
All these were from a small batch of surplus laptop hard drives, only one had a data partition affected. Aside from that I can't pull out other MX information. Am I right in thinking that on these HDDs with flaky partition sectors there's no easy way to recover the systems and maybe just reinstall MX for read only duty on these data drives?
Busybox Initramfs no boot
Re: Busybox Initramfs no boot
PhotoRec, Foremost and Mondo Rescue are the only other tools I have used other than TestDisk. Typically if I cannot get data off using TestDisk or PhotoRec then it's a lost cause.
If you have had thee failures on these disks I would not be using them for *anything*! Three times in the past year... are bad drives. (or something causing this in your machine!) It is possible that you have something odd going on with the mobo, power supply or data cable. ( even possibly some magnetic field in the machine / very near it.)
If for some reason you want to continue using them, then I would suggest a daily time shift (to a *different drive*!), and then a nightly backup (again - to a different drive!).
Quick story - approx 20 years ago I had a customer that lost his hard drive 3 times, the second and third time were brand new drives - worked approx 1 week. The third time I arrived he was clearing off his desk, and I saw him move his phone off the top of his computer tower. (older landline phone). I asked him about it and he said it always sat there and the he usually had it moved when I arrived. Since the hard drive was 3 inches from the phone (top of the tower ), I asked him to place the phone somewhere else - and we never had another issue with his computer.
The point of this... it may not be something 'obvious' causing an issue, but three failures in under a year...
If you have had thee failures on these disks I would not be using them for *anything*! Three times in the past year... are bad drives. (or something causing this in your machine!) It is possible that you have something odd going on with the mobo, power supply or data cable. ( even possibly some magnetic field in the machine / very near it.)
If for some reason you want to continue using them, then I would suggest a daily time shift (to a *different drive*!), and then a nightly backup (again - to a different drive!).
Quick story - approx 20 years ago I had a customer that lost his hard drive 3 times, the second and third time were brand new drives - worked approx 1 week. The third time I arrived he was clearing off his desk, and I saw him move his phone off the top of his computer tower. (older landline phone). I asked him about it and he said it always sat there and the he usually had it moved when I arrived. Since the hard drive was 3 inches from the phone (top of the tower ), I asked him to place the phone somewhere else - and we never had another issue with his computer.
The point of this... it may not be something 'obvious' causing an issue, but three failures in under a year...
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Re: Busybox Initramfs no boot
These surplus drives are just being used as inexpensive backups of large files with MX as a convenience OS, thanks Charles. Improvements to MX are very encouraging, Moksha by AVL impresses me and am hoping Wine and Alsamixer will stick around.