JackD
May 9th, 2011, 01:35 PM
11.04 upgrade was going swimmingly, and then it was interrupted. Upon reboot, the "root filesystem check failed"
- I can boot into the repair mode, but even as root, the / is read-only.
- I've mounted a live CD and run fsck against the harddrive /, and it's clean.
- I tried /forcefsck, but startup still errors out as read-only.
- I've check /etc/fstab and it's fine.
So, I can boot into a liveCD and work fine with the / on the harddrive. I see all the files, everything is good, the fsck is clean. However, doing a reboot, it fails with a mounting error.
I've spent a good amount of time Googling resolutions, but I can't find anything.
I have /home on another partition (and backed up). / root is it's own partition.
Any ideas on why the root will not boot into rw ?
Thanks
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Follow-up:
- After booting up in recovery mode, I ran "sudo mount -o remount,rw / " Don't know why I didn't think of it before, but I was really thrown off by the oddness of the event.
- Then the ran "dpkg --configure -a" and so forth to complete the dist-upgrade.
- My nvidia and virtualbox drivers were a mess with the kernel, and took a while to excise and rebuild.
- Finally, I did not know about the "Boot Info Script" before now. Quite cool, and I'll add it to my toolbox.
- I can boot into the repair mode, but even as root, the / is read-only.
- I've mounted a live CD and run fsck against the harddrive /, and it's clean.
- I tried /forcefsck, but startup still errors out as read-only.
- I've check /etc/fstab and it's fine.
So, I can boot into a liveCD and work fine with the / on the harddrive. I see all the files, everything is good, the fsck is clean. However, doing a reboot, it fails with a mounting error.
I've spent a good amount of time Googling resolutions, but I can't find anything.
I have /home on another partition (and backed up). / root is it's own partition.
Any ideas on why the root will not boot into rw ?
Thanks
______________________________________
Follow-up:
- After booting up in recovery mode, I ran "sudo mount -o remount,rw / " Don't know why I didn't think of it before, but I was really thrown off by the oddness of the event.
- Then the ran "dpkg --configure -a" and so forth to complete the dist-upgrade.
- My nvidia and virtualbox drivers were a mess with the kernel, and took a while to excise and rebuild.
- Finally, I did not know about the "Boot Info Script" before now. Quite cool, and I'll add it to my toolbox.