[ubuntu-za] Kernel panic

[Bill T]

On 29/06/2016 20:06, wesley werner wrote:
> On 29/06/2016 16:41, Tim Johnson wrote:
>>
>> Im running 15.10 from live CD and can access all my files
>>
>
> Hi Tim,
>
> You can also try reinstalling grub from the Live CD - 
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2/Installing#Fixing_a_Broken_System
>
> The first thing I would do however is make a backup of all your 
> important files, this error smells like partial disk failure.
>
> Regards, Wes
>
Agreed - the screen copy looks a lot like what I was experiencing with a 
new WD (normal) disk. However, the problem in my case was not actually 
failure but some bug in the internal power management. The disk was 
going to sleep during the post period and not waking up in time. There 
is a jumper at the back of the drive which enables/disables power 
management and which I normally had to remove but in this case 
installing it helped. Sorry that I can't be more specific, don't really 
know that much about it. In the end, I had to boot off another drive 
which gave the WD enough time to wake up and come on-line.
HTH
Bill