System will not boot

[mrdaze0]

Hi, I rebooted my system this morning after attempting an upgrade to the newest release....when rebooting the system will not go past mountall it stops on mount: /media/sdb waiting for /dev/sdb1

What can i do to fix this?

[prshah]

Hi, I rebooted my system this morning after attempting an upgrade to the newest release....when rebooting the system will not go past mountall it stops on mount: /media/sdb waiting for /dev/sdb1

I had the same problem on my laptop (I had completed the upgrade successfully). The only way I could solve it was by commenting out the offending UUID in /etc/fstab; fortunately it referred to my fat32 Windows partition and not "/" or "/home". I still have to leave it commented out; everytime I enable it I land up with the same error as you.

This means that my Windows partition is now not automatically mounted; I have to doubleclick it in Nautilus to mount it. This also means that my documents created in that partition are not indexed by Google Desktop.

I suggest you try to comment out the stated partition ID (/dev/sdb1) from your /etc/fstab, if it does not refer to a linux partition. To access the file, you will need a live CD; boot off it, open a terminal (Applications-Accessories-Terminal), then use the following commands:

sudo mount /dev/sdX9 /mnt -o defaults,rw
sudo pico /mnt/etc/fstab
#comment out the relevant UUIDs / partition (/dev/sdb1)
#by placing a "#" at the beginning of the relevant lines
#Ctrl-X to quit pico; save when prompted
sudo umount /mnt
sudo reboot

Important: replace /dev/sdX9 with the linux partition ID that contains the "/" (root) filesystem.

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