ext3 is default. I would question the sanity of the person that leaves ext3 out of the kernel. Possible a corrupt partition table? Mike PS: sorry for orcons crap webmail sevice and poorly formated emails :( -----Original Message----- From: zcat <zcat(a)maxnet.co.nz> Sent: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 10:17:13 +1200 To: Waikato Linux Users Group <wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz> Subject: Re: [wlug] boot problems
Had a look on Ubuntu forums, some people have reinstalled Ubuntu after booting from a bootable CD to get around this problem.
That sounds a bit extreme!! What filesystem does ubuntu use by default? Sounds to me like someone released a new kernel without compiling in the appropriate FS support. My solution would be boot from the live CD, mount your root partition, copy over the live CD kernel and initrd.img, then edit grub or lilo to boot from that kernel. After that you should be able to boot normally and go find a newer kernel that works like it should. -- Disclaimer: Any disclaimer attached to this message may be ignored. _______________________________________________ wlug mailing list | wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Unsubscribe: http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/wlug <br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>
Michael Honeyfield wrote:
ext3 is default.
I would question the sanity of the person that leaves ext3 out of the kernel.
Possible a corrupt partition table?
OK, on digging a little further, /dev/hda1 is type 0x7 which is NTFS. That's almost certainly not your root partition, so I'll change my advice. Boot a live CD and find out where your root partition really is. Mount it rw and edit the grub or lilo config appropriately (and reinstall lilo if that's what you use) and THEN the box should boot normally. -- Disclaimer: Any disclaimer attached to this message may be ignored.
OK, on digging a little further, /dev/hda1 is type 0x7 which is NTFS. That's almost certainly not your root partition, so I'll change my advice.
Boot a live CD and find out where your root partition really is. Mount it rw and edit the grub or lilo config appropriately (and reinstall lilo if that's what you use) and THEN the box should boot normally.
I'll change your advice a little too. Bring the computer to the meeting next Monday and have someone show you how to do it. :) Craig
On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 10:31 +1200, zcat wrote:
OK, on digging a little further, /dev/hda1 is type 0x7 which is NTFS. That's almost certainly not your root partition, so I'll change my advice.
Boot a live CD and find out where your root partition really is. Mount it rw and edit the grub or lilo config appropriately (and reinstall lilo if that's what you use) and THEN the box should boot normally.
Note that if you're using grub (which Ubuntu does by default) you don't need to mount rw to fix problems. simply push 'e' on the line that is about to be booted and you'll be able to edit it. This will allow you to try booting with different root partitions /dev/hda2, /dev/hda3 etc until you find the correct one. Once you done that and booted up ubuntu successfully then you can modify the grub config on the hard disk. Yet another reason why grub is much better than lilo :) Regards -- Matt Brown matt(a)mattb.net.nz Mob +64 275 611 544 www.mattb.net.nz
This will allow you to try booting with different root partitions /dev/hda2, /dev/hda3 etc until you find the correct one.
.. and then find out who released a kernel package that changes the root partition like this, and LART the crap out of them!! -- Disclaimer: Any disclaimer attached to this message may be ignored.
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