Cfrgtkky

I am running Ubuntu 12.04 on a netbook - Acer AS 1410.

After a download session, I restarted the computer and it said:

error: hd0 out of disk. Press any key to continue...

I pressed everything, but it's just frozen there.

Any idea what's wrong with it and what I can do to fix it? I haven't been able to run my computer at all since it's frozen like that. Help please!

I booted the live cd and ran sudo fdisk -lu into terminal, and here's what it gave me:

Disk /dev/sda: 60.0 GB, 60022480896 bytes

255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7297 cylinders, total 117231408 sectors

Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes

Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disk identifier: 0x9a696263



   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System

/dev/sda3            2048   117229567    58613760    5  Extended

/dev/sda5   *    71647232   109039615    18696192   83  Linux

/dev/sda6       109041664   117229567     4093952   82  Linux swap / Solaris

/dev/sda7            4096    71645183    35820544   83  Linux



Partition table entries are not in disk order

I am somewhat of a beginner in this, so don't know what this means. any ideas?
Thanks!

I believe you've upgraded many times, and you have a lot of old linux kernals filling up your grub partition.

I think you're going to have to boot from a live DVD or USB, mount the HDs boot partition, see if it is indeed full, and if that's the case, manually delete a couple of old kernals.

If you haven't got a backup, you might copy your ~/ to a safe place first.

Start with a Live-Usb.

Completed load session:

Open a terminal.

Press Ctrl+Alt+T

Run it:

sudo -i

umount /dev/sda5

fsck -y /dev/sda5

umount /dev/sda6

fsck -y /dev/sda6

mount /dev/sda5 /mnt

mount --bind /dev /mnt/dev 

mount --bind /dev/pts /mnt/dev/pts

mount --bind /proc /mnt/proc

mount --bind /sys /mnt/sys

chroot /mnt

apt-get update

apt-get autoremove

apt-get clean

UNUSCONF=$(dpkg -l|grep "^rc"|awk '{print $2}')

apt-get remove --purge $UNUSCONF

NEWKERNEL=$(uname -r|sed 's/-*[a-z]//g'|sed 's/-386//g')

ADDKERNEL="linux-(image|headers|ubuntu-modules|restricted-modules)"

METAKERNEL="linux-(image|headers|restricted-modules)-(generic|i386|server|common|rt|xen)"

UNUSKERNELS=$(dpkg -l|awk '{print $2}'|grep -E $ADDKERNEL |grep -vE $METAKERNEL|grep -v $NEWKERNEL)

apt-get remove --purge $UNUSKERNELS

grub-install --root-directory=/mnt /dev/sda

grub-install --recheck /dev/sda

umount /mnt

reboot