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nss0000
April 9th, 2010, 08:09 PM
Gents:

Running solo Ubuntu 9.1 on current AMD-965/MSI_gd70 desktop.

Recently I upgraded hardware ( new ram/2nd hdd/temp-probe ) on this kit. All function appeared nominal and all hardware appeared in BIOS.

After adding a new line in /etc/fstab to conjure-up my new 650-G sata I rebooted ... I can access **nothing** on my system ... except FireFox and THAT because I have a FF_icon on my desktop.

The system boots, and std Gnome GUI appears, but excepting *LOGIN* none of the tool-bars have any function whatsoever. I cannot reach the command-line ... whatever that might be worth. I appreciate any insight into this vanishing system issue.

nss0000
April 9th, 2010, 11:12 PM
A couple random re-boots ... and the system starts working again.

Sure I feel stupid ... but I still do not know what happened when I listed HDD#2 in /etc/fstab.

nss0000
April 9th, 2010, 11:14 PM
A couple random re-boots ... and the system starts working again.

Sure I feel stupid ... but I still do not know what happened when I listed HDD#2 in /etc/fstab.
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'vol_id --uuid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# / was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=6c81e29c-2eba-42c4-a940-630b2c7c5fc8 / ext3 relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=7aaf326a-cc3a-4aa7-900f-95981847fffa none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
/dev/sdb1 /mnt/sdb1 ext3 defaults 0 0