ekidd91
February 20th, 2009, 03:32 PM
Hi, I'm new here and new to Ubuntu also.
After two attempts I finally installed Ubuntu 8.10 successfully (or what i thought was successfully), and now it won't boot. Although I did get the message telling me Ubuntu had been installed and to restart, my screen had gone blank during the installation (from about 83%) and I had to unplug it and after a while I could see the installation again (at 94%). This is probably irrelevant to my problem (likely just a faulty monitor) but I thought I would mention it anyway. I wiped my harddrive and did a clean install using the full harddrive
After the Ubuntu loading screen (orange loading bar), I get a message saying that it gave up loading (or something to that effect) and this error message:
ALERT! /dev/disk/by-uuid/44c7b725-2602-4ae2-aa3f-1b0e11d7dc5f does not exist. Dropping to shell.
Following this there are a series of messages which are quite lengthy (hence the fact I didn't copy these down, I can if requested; I thought the initial error message was most important).
I've left the computer for a long time to see if it would eventually load, but alas, it doesn't and just stays at this error screen.
Thanks in advance.
After two attempts I finally installed Ubuntu 8.10 successfully (or what i thought was successfully), and now it won't boot. Although I did get the message telling me Ubuntu had been installed and to restart, my screen had gone blank during the installation (from about 83%) and I had to unplug it and after a while I could see the installation again (at 94%). This is probably irrelevant to my problem (likely just a faulty monitor) but I thought I would mention it anyway. I wiped my harddrive and did a clean install using the full harddrive
After the Ubuntu loading screen (orange loading bar), I get a message saying that it gave up loading (or something to that effect) and this error message:
ALERT! /dev/disk/by-uuid/44c7b725-2602-4ae2-aa3f-1b0e11d7dc5f does not exist. Dropping to shell.
Following this there are a series of messages which are quite lengthy (hence the fact I didn't copy these down, I can if requested; I thought the initial error message was most important).
I've left the computer for a long time to see if it would eventually load, but alas, it doesn't and just stays at this error screen.
Thanks in advance.