janimal
March 10th, 2011, 07:21 PM
Hi all,
My 68 year old father runs ubuntu on his x61 laptop (mostly for e-mail and some WP with OO, he usually saves any data to a usb stick)and has never had any problems before. However his battery has now died and until I go over to France next month with a new one he has to run it plugged in all the time. Unfortunately the cat managed to pull the power cord while he was using it and on boot up he was getting the boot ini error.
Over skype (on his wife's win-box) I instructed him to put in the live cd so we could check the HD filesystem. Unfortunately when trying to run fsck it said it couldn't run because the filesystem was mounted or in use.
When trying to do a file system check from the disk utility that said the disk was bad.
As he has no data on the drive I tried to get him to reformat so we could re-install. But both format and delete partition both fail saying the disk is in use.
Trying to install from the Live CD the installation just hangs after clicking forward on the first page of the installer - ie just before the question about partitions.
Can anyone suggest a way to format the system partition from the live CD? I don't understand why it says the filesystem is mounted or in-use?
thanks in advance,
Janimal
PS. He is using Ubuntu 10.10 on a del x61 2gb ram
My 68 year old father runs ubuntu on his x61 laptop (mostly for e-mail and some WP with OO, he usually saves any data to a usb stick)and has never had any problems before. However his battery has now died and until I go over to France next month with a new one he has to run it plugged in all the time. Unfortunately the cat managed to pull the power cord while he was using it and on boot up he was getting the boot ini error.
Over skype (on his wife's win-box) I instructed him to put in the live cd so we could check the HD filesystem. Unfortunately when trying to run fsck it said it couldn't run because the filesystem was mounted or in use.
When trying to do a file system check from the disk utility that said the disk was bad.
As he has no data on the drive I tried to get him to reformat so we could re-install. But both format and delete partition both fail saying the disk is in use.
Trying to install from the Live CD the installation just hangs after clicking forward on the first page of the installer - ie just before the question about partitions.
Can anyone suggest a way to format the system partition from the live CD? I don't understand why it says the filesystem is mounted or in-use?
thanks in advance,
Janimal
PS. He is using Ubuntu 10.10 on a del x61 2gb ram