On 02/17/2014 09:28 PM, jdd wrote:

Le 17/02/2014 20:27, ellanios82 a écrit :

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after several attempts, have not yet succeeded to boot the Intenso external usb disk

what messages are displayed?

............................ - ah ! thank you : looked at /var/log/warn and see : __________________________________________ " EXT4-fs error (device sdc4): __ext4_get_inode_loc:3918: inode #6029345: block 24117282: comm rsync: unable to read itable block 2013-12-12T21:32:14.511089+02:00 AIG kernel: [34856.466635] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE 2013-12-12T21:32:14.511091+02:00 AIG kernel: [34856.466641] Sense Key : Medium Error [current] 2013-12-12T21:32:14.511093+02:00 AIG kernel: [34856.466648] Add. Sense: Unrecovered read error 2013-12-12T21:32:14.511095+02:00 AIG kernel: [34856.466664] Read(10): 28 00 23 5d af 74 00 00 08 00 2013-12-12T21:32:14.511095+02:00 AIG kernel: [34856.466675] end_request: critical medium error, dev sdc, sector 593342324 2013-12-12T21:32:14.802762+02:00 AIG kernel: [34856.655499] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE 2013-12-12T21:32:14.802764+02:00 AIG kernel: [34856.655503] Sense Key : Medium Error [current] 2013-12-12T21:32:14.802766+02:00 AIG kernel: [34856.655509] Add. Sense: Unrecovered read error " .......................... { i had run : fsck.ext4 -f /dev/sdc4 : the results looked ok and no file-system errors were shown } : thus, suppose there is something wrong with the medium :( ................. many thanks regards -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

On 02/17/2014 09:59 PM, Greg Freemyer wrote:

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2013-12-12T21:32:14.511095+02:00 AIG kernel: [34856.466675] end_request: critical medium error, dev sdc, sector 593342324 Does you external device have that many sectors, or is something

On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 2:47 PM, ellanios82 wrote: pointing past end-of-disk. That sector is about 303 GB into the drive.

If the sector is real, you have at least one bad sector. And if that sector is needed for booting, it could be stopping the whole process.

- many thanks Greg : that is probably "it" : bad sector needed for booting :( .......... regards -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

On 02/18/2014 01:17 AM, Ken Schneider - openSUSE wrote:

Make sure your bios is configured to allow booting from USB.

- thanks ~ yes usb boot is allowed and works fine with oS 13.1 on usb stick - think Greg identifies correctly : ""

2013-12-12T21:32:14.511095+02:00 AIG kernel: [34856.466675] end_request: critical medium error, dev sdc, sector 593342324

"Does you external device have that many sectors, or is something pointing past end-of-disk. That sector is about 303 GB into the drive. If the sector is real, you have at least one bad sector. And if that sector is needed for booting, it could be stopping the whole process." "" ________ regards -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org