Installing on Toshiba Satellite L750

[rokytnji]

To do what trinidad suggested the easy way. Run a Live session on a the install on your laptop. Run gparted during the live session. Right click in gparted and pick unmount if it is shown. Right click again and check that mount is now the option offered.


Do Not Mount it.

Right click again on the drive. Pick check. Let it run it's course. When done. Reboot and see what happens. Live media will pulled before reboot. So you are only booting off internal drive.

I have old cd's of

https://gparted.org/download.php

which work for what I suggested. Live iso downloads of gparted are like 270MB or so.

[JanetBiggar]

Hmmm, both these sound very complicated to my newbie mind.

Trinidad I’m willing to give what you suggested a try it sounds maybe a tinge less complex than what rokytnji mentioned, however I’d need really specific directions on what to do and what or where I find the grub menu and what busy box is...

Not sure if you’re willing to consider this or if it might be over my head.

[trinidad]

Bring up grub menu. Hit e. Read which partition LL is on from the boot menu. Then run fsck from busy box. Reboot.

If boot problems persist, and you find yourself chasing new errors and LL is on sda1 you probably have an HDD sector alignment problem which is more difficult to deal with.

*I just looked up your specs. Run fsck and post back if you boot okay afterwards. Posting your partitioning scheme would help.     

TC

[rokytnji]

If me. To rule out a failing hard drive. I would run a persistent install of Linux Lite like I showed when I joined this forum in my introduction thread.


https://www.linuxliteos.com/forums/introductions/howdy-from-a-scooter-tramp-with-a-linux-computer/msg3875/#msg3875

Trouble shooting hardware requires a little elbow grease.  But beggars don't look a gift horse in the mouth. Good luck with it.

Edit: If no problems in the long run running persistent usb install. That is when you have to become a mechanic. Look up on the internet how to's for pulling hard drive covers and take apart caddies and check cables, connector pins, etc.........

I have fixed gear where I found I only needed to reseat a connector that was loose. Movement would cause intermittent problems because the connector cable flexes.

My experience with busy box screens. File corruption on the hard drive. Hence why I am concentrating on posting about trouble shooting the hard drive.

2nd edit: You might wanna mention what file system you chose and how you set up this install also. Like so.

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root@biker:/home/harry# blkid
/dev/sda1: LABEL="antiX15root" UUID="685d85b2-6651-49ed-928c-d5e17f70f500" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="035e47d3-01"
/dev/sda2: LABEL="antiX15home" UUID="8d150b09-c903-4b7d-9326-7b88e7ac84f2" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="035e47d3-02"
/dev/sda3: UUID="45720f5c-3d28-4e6d-a06d-9ce4a9fe5370" TYPE="swap" PARTUUID="035e47d3-03"
/dev/sda5: LABEL="/data1" UUID="8c692b69-46f7-48ef-abc9-e6963655e259" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="035e47d3-05"
/dev/sda6: LABEL="/data2" UUID="b76696e8-11ba-4177-970b-0d237aa5a8ae" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="035e47d3-06"
root@biker:/home/harry# parted -l
Model: ATA HGST HTS545032A7 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 320GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
Partition Table: msdos
Disk Flags:

Number  Start   End     Size    Type      File system     Flags
 1      1049kB  8390MB  8389MB  primary   ext4
 2      8390MB  81.8GB  73.4GB  primary   ext4
 3      81.8GB  86.0GB  4194MB  primary   linux-swap(v1)
 4      86.0GB  320GB   234GB   extended
 6      86.0GB  191GB   105GB   logical   ext4
 5      191GB   320GB   129GB   logical   ext4


[JanetBiggar]

Thanks Supergamer - for now I will put it on the back burner and watch for any other suggestions that might be worthwhile trying.

[supergamer]

This sounds like a hardware issue. This can include a lot of things including over heating as well as a hard drive not mounting properly. I know from experience that a hard drive failing will look like this but it really can be anything.

[JanetBiggar]

so I will try to make this as short as possible and concise.  This computer (Toshiba Satellite L750 was donated to me which was running Win 10). I wiped it using DBAN then loaded LL 3.4  All seemed to be running fine then it starting acting really weird just as I was placing it with a youth.  We shut it down then re-booted and got the following screen message:

*Linux Lite GNU/Linux
 Advanced options for Linux Lite GNU/Linux
 Memory test (memtest 86+)
 Memory test (memtest 86+, serial console 115200)

I tried simply clicking on the the top line and this is the message I got (No, it did not go into LL 3.4):

BusyBox v1.22.1 (Ubuntu 1:1.22.0-15ubuntu) bulit-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help" for a list of built-in commands.

(initramfs) _

I then decided to re-install LL 3.4 and did so.  I loaded it and seemed to be working fine including WiFi.  I made a system report and added it to the LL hardware database (Done 02/17/2018 07:05).

I then shut it down, pulled it up again and selected to update it.  It got a list of updates, I then clicked install and at the end I got a message saying that it could not install the updates. I shut it down and then this morning thought I would give the updates a try again and this time IF it didn't update look at log and try to save it to ask.  No go.  What I got was initially the solitary feather logo then it showed the SECOND screen message - the one starting with BusyBox... (as stated above, the Windows OS has been completely wiped).

BTW I did start a memtest 86+ at the beginning of all this as I'm wondering if there is something wrong with the computer (hard drive..?) and while it only ran for about 2 hours and was working on the 3rd pass I then exited out of the memtest despite having read that 5-8 passes minimum is recommended (No errors picked up) to then reload LL3.4

I have looked up the busy box message and it says to do the following:
type exit after the (initramfs) then the use the following:
(initramfs) fsck /dev/sda1

I am willing to try the above - however:
1) reading further down this article in askubuntu.com it seems that it isn't always sda1 that is used but sometimes sda5 or sda8...How does one know or decide what to enter.
2) I couldn't tell from the article (maybe because this is over my head) whether doing the above is a permanent fix or whether I'd have to do the above each time I booted up..?

Any advice or should I simply put this laptop on the shelf for "parts"?