starrider1026
May 14th, 2011, 06:04 AM
Hello all, I've been using various versions of ubuntu (8.10 on up) on my dell mini 9 netbook for a couple years now without any major problems. Unfortunately, that good luck streak seems to have finally run out in a big way.
Earlier this week ubuntu 10.10 NBR pinged me with the update notice to 11.04. I was busy at the time, and didn't get around to updating until yesterday. I let it update as I slept, and woke up this morning to find my netbook unable to boot. I did a format/reinstall of 11.04 and all seemed to work fine, and I left the computer asleep to go do other things. A few hours later I came back and tried to wake up my computer and log in and while I was able to log in, I was met with a flat black screen and the notification that ubuntu had sucessfully connected to my house's wifi. I tried restarting a couple times, and figured I would just reinstall again to see if that would fix it. This time the install failed most of the way through with this error.
[errno 30] Read-only file system '/target/opt'
It also had some kind blurb underneath the error message talking about how this was generally caused by old hard drives that are failing. This is highly distrubing becasue I literally bought and installed this ssd less than a month ago, with everything working perfectly until today.
I tried installing 11.04 once more with the same error (but a different filename this time) before I decided to try an earlier version. 9.04, but this install attempt failed aswell telling me what looked like an earlier version of the same error.
At this point i dug up my 10.10 live USB and booted from it using the "try ubuntu" feature, which worked perfectly. I used the disk utility feature which at the time told me that my drive was healthy, and just to be sure I formatted it once more to get rid of any of the past few attempts installation fragments and told it to go ahead and install 10.10. This install failed aswell in the closing stages telling me that grub-update failed to install and that this was a fatal error. It then gave me the option of installing the bootloader to another location, skipping that step, or cancelling the install. Strangely, no matter what option I choose it would not allow me to press ok. After letting it sit for a while and hoping it would make up its mind, I forced it to turn off, removed the battery, replaced it and booted up again using the try ubuntu feature of the live usb. Now however, the disk utility tells me that my drive's status is not supported, and when I try to format the partitions it has i get an error saying
Error creating patition table: helper exited with exit
code 1: in part_create_partition_table: device_file=/dev/seda, scheme=0
got it
got disk
committed to disk
BLKRRPART ioctl failed for dev/sda: Device or resource busy
This happens regardless of the filesystem I try to format the drive in. I have tried installing 10.10 again, but recieve the same error at the same time on each attempt. If I try to boot the computer normally after it reaches this point I get a command line based grub interface telling me I can use basic BASH commands for minimal navigation, but have not been able to get anywhere in that interface.
Any help would be hugely appericiated!
Earlier this week ubuntu 10.10 NBR pinged me with the update notice to 11.04. I was busy at the time, and didn't get around to updating until yesterday. I let it update as I slept, and woke up this morning to find my netbook unable to boot. I did a format/reinstall of 11.04 and all seemed to work fine, and I left the computer asleep to go do other things. A few hours later I came back and tried to wake up my computer and log in and while I was able to log in, I was met with a flat black screen and the notification that ubuntu had sucessfully connected to my house's wifi. I tried restarting a couple times, and figured I would just reinstall again to see if that would fix it. This time the install failed most of the way through with this error.
[errno 30] Read-only file system '/target/opt'
It also had some kind blurb underneath the error message talking about how this was generally caused by old hard drives that are failing. This is highly distrubing becasue I literally bought and installed this ssd less than a month ago, with everything working perfectly until today.
I tried installing 11.04 once more with the same error (but a different filename this time) before I decided to try an earlier version. 9.04, but this install attempt failed aswell telling me what looked like an earlier version of the same error.
At this point i dug up my 10.10 live USB and booted from it using the "try ubuntu" feature, which worked perfectly. I used the disk utility feature which at the time told me that my drive was healthy, and just to be sure I formatted it once more to get rid of any of the past few attempts installation fragments and told it to go ahead and install 10.10. This install failed aswell in the closing stages telling me that grub-update failed to install and that this was a fatal error. It then gave me the option of installing the bootloader to another location, skipping that step, or cancelling the install. Strangely, no matter what option I choose it would not allow me to press ok. After letting it sit for a while and hoping it would make up its mind, I forced it to turn off, removed the battery, replaced it and booted up again using the try ubuntu feature of the live usb. Now however, the disk utility tells me that my drive's status is not supported, and when I try to format the partitions it has i get an error saying
Error creating patition table: helper exited with exit
code 1: in part_create_partition_table: device_file=/dev/seda, scheme=0
got it
got disk
committed to disk
BLKRRPART ioctl failed for dev/sda: Device or resource busy
This happens regardless of the filesystem I try to format the drive in. I have tried installing 10.10 again, but recieve the same error at the same time on each attempt. If I try to boot the computer normally after it reaches this point I get a command line based grub interface telling me I can use basic BASH commands for minimal navigation, but have not been able to get anywhere in that interface.
Any help would be hugely appericiated!