maja_z
October 16th, 2010, 03:38 AM
I'm posting this as a new thread, but the troubles really started here http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1592456.. (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1592456)
Basically after using testdisk to fix my partitions and some creative rewriting of fstab, I now cannot boot : I get the error "Mount of root filesystem failed. A maintenance shell will now be started." and a prompt
Here's what fdisk says:
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 640.1 GB, 640135028736 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 77825 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 5222 8486 26214400 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 8486 21540 104857600 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 21540 77826 452113408 7 HPFS/NTFS
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$
And here's my fstab:
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# -- This file has been automaticly generated by ntfs-config --
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# Entry for /dev/sda1 :
UUID=b5f8506a-2a23-48c8-987e-086385d48f2b / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
/dev/sda1 / ext4 defaults,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0
/dev/sda2 /media/d ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0
/dev/sda3 /media/e ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0
/mnt/4096Mb.swap none swap sw 0 0(After testdisk the system booted fine, but the second two partitions did not mount automatically. Hence the meddling with fstab. If it is relevant at all, the system used to be on sda2, because Win7 was on sda1, but that space is currently unallocated).
I tried running fsck at the prompt and in like 0.2 seconds it just says /dev/sda1 clean xxx/xxxy files...
So I tried fsck -f and it goes from 1. to 5. but also only takes about 4 seconds, and finishes with the line
/dev/sda1 xxx/xxxy files...
I'm in a live cd now (having rebooted about 20 times now...) Please help!
m.
Basically after using testdisk to fix my partitions and some creative rewriting of fstab, I now cannot boot : I get the error "Mount of root filesystem failed. A maintenance shell will now be started." and a prompt
Here's what fdisk says:
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 640.1 GB, 640135028736 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 77825 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 5222 8486 26214400 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 8486 21540 104857600 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 21540 77826 452113408 7 HPFS/NTFS
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$
And here's my fstab:
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# -- This file has been automaticly generated by ntfs-config --
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# Entry for /dev/sda1 :
UUID=b5f8506a-2a23-48c8-987e-086385d48f2b / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
/dev/sda1 / ext4 defaults,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0
/dev/sda2 /media/d ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0
/dev/sda3 /media/e ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0
/mnt/4096Mb.swap none swap sw 0 0(After testdisk the system booted fine, but the second two partitions did not mount automatically. Hence the meddling with fstab. If it is relevant at all, the system used to be on sda2, because Win7 was on sda1, but that space is currently unallocated).
I tried running fsck at the prompt and in like 0.2 seconds it just says /dev/sda1 clean xxx/xxxy files...
So I tried fsck -f and it goes from 1. to 5. but also only takes about 4 seconds, and finishes with the line
/dev/sda1 xxx/xxxy files...
I'm in a live cd now (having rebooted about 20 times now...) Please help!
m.