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  1. #1
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    Can't mount filesystems

    This morning when I booted my laptop I received a bash screen which said "General error mounting filesystems".

    I thought it may have been a GRUB problem, so booted from a Live CD and tried to update grub using sudo update-grub, It gave me the error "grub-probe error cannot find a device for /.".

    I then tried this: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Grub2#Recove...20via%20LiveCD and now when I boot my laptop I get a grub screen.

    Not wanting to **** things up further, I thought I'd ask if anyone knows how to fix this.

    Cheers.

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    Re: Can't mount filesystems

    using live cd
    the X is your partition number which you can find by
    Code:
    sudo fdisk -l
    Code:
    $sudo mount /dev/sdaX /mnt
    $sudo mount --bind /dev /mnt/dev
    $sudo mount --bind /proc /mnt/proc
    sudo chroot /mnt
    #grub-install --recheck /dev/sda
    
    $sudo reboot
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  3. #3
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    Re: Can't mount filesystems

    Cheers. However, sudo mount --bind /proc /mnt/proc gives the error message "mount: /proc: can't read superblock"

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    Re: Can't mount filesystems

    e2fsck -f -y -v /dev/sdaX
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  5. #5
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    Re: Can't mount filesystems

    Fantastic, it's working fine now.

    In the interests of preventing it from happening again, do you know why this happened?

    Many thanks.

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