10.04 server won't boot, modprobe FATAL error

[daveldhu]

Hi,

I have server 10.04 running, and I modified my fstab file to automatically mount an NTFS partition on startup, but after a reboot, I see that I clearly did something wrong, as now it will not boot.

The output is:

/dev/sdb1 was not cleanly unmounted, check forced.
NTFS signature is missing.
Failed to mount '/dev/sda1': Invalid argument
The device '/dev/sda' doesn't seem to have a valid NTFS
Maybe the wrong device is used? Or the whole disk instead of a
partition (e.g. /dev/sda, not /dev/sda1)? Or the other way around?
mountall: mount /media/store [767] terminated with status 12
mountall: Filesystem could not be mounted: /media/store
modprobe: FATAL: Error inserting padlock_sha (/lib/modules/2.6.32-21-server/kernel/drivers/crypto/padlock-sha.ko): No such device

/dev/sdb1: 206/124496 files (1.9% non-contiguous), 35092/248832 blocks
mountall: fsck /boot [418] terminated with status 1
init: ureadahead-other main process (923) terminated with status 4

If this is an error with my changes to the fstab file, is there any way I can access is to change it? No matter what i do I can't get it to boot.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

[jbrown96]

You will need to hold shift or Esc when the system first boots. That will get you to the grub menu. Choose the "recovery" with the highest numbered kernel (should be second option). Let that boot. You should get to a menu and choose "recovery shell".

use nano or vi to edit fstab

vi /etc/fstab

comment out your ntfs entry by placing a # at the beginning of the line. Save, exit and

reboot

When modifying fstab, it's not a good idea to reboot before trying your changes. Once you get everything back to normal, add your ntfs entry, then try

sudo mount -a

which will mount all file systems in fstab. You will get errors if there is a problem, without breaking your system.