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May 17th, 2011, 03:57 PM
Hi, this is my first post so bear with me as I will really appreciate your help. I never really liked asking for help and always searched for solution by google but this is the first time I am stumped and cannot resolve.
I upgraded from 10.10 to 11.04 via the update manager and somehow in the middle of it, the package failed. And so I carried on using the ubuntu, rebooted and now the disk is not ready and cannot mount. Press S to skip or M for manual recovery. Skip does nothing, only can use manual recovery.
I tried everything from the ubuntu forums & google from other people who had the same problem. The problem is my root terminal on manual recovery doesn't have networking. Only can use liveCD which I still can't connect to the internet because I use wlan0 from ndiswrapper.
I am a dual booter of Ubuntu 10.10 on one partition and Windows XP on other. I edited the grub to boot those. One HDD is partitioned into 2 drives so one partition holds XP and the other partition is a "translator" that holds files which both ubuntu and XP can access. (don't ask me why, I cleaned the dust off my PC recently after 3 years :P)
My outputs are:
/boot/grub/menu.lst
title LINUX - Ubuntu 10.10 - kernel 2.6.35-28-generic
root (hd1,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35-28-generic root=UUID=85de06c5-cf3e-46b8-8c14-2c217be8dd9d ro vga=0x317 splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.35-28-generic
quiet
title Windows XP Professional
root (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
/etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/hdb1
UUID=85de06c5-cf3e-46b8-8c14-2c217be8dd9d / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /dev/hdb5
UUID=8f71786e-e3b6-4f5a-b1ee-ce249dd4f57c none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0
blkid
/dev/sdb1: UUID="85de06c5-cf3e-46b8-8c14-2c217be8dd9d" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sdb5: UUID="8f71786e-e3b6-4f5a-b1ee-ce249dd4f57c" TYPE="swap"
/dev/sda1: UUID="DE2853AE28538485" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sda5: LABEL="TRANSLATOR" UUID="147553BCE0BA3D91" TYPE="ntfs"
- I commented the UUIDs, that doesn't work.
- I tried remounting it, no effect.
- I fsck'ed it, no effect.
- I booted using LiveCD but cannot connect to the internet due to wireless.
- Cannot apt-get update & upgrade due to no internet.
That's all I remember cos I basically tried alot different ways and cannot get it to boot.
I am thinking of formatting the mess and start all over again but I don't really want to do that because it is a good system, just that the grub file and fstab is kinda cluttered.
Any idea what I should do?
I upgraded from 10.10 to 11.04 via the update manager and somehow in the middle of it, the package failed. And so I carried on using the ubuntu, rebooted and now the disk is not ready and cannot mount. Press S to skip or M for manual recovery. Skip does nothing, only can use manual recovery.
I tried everything from the ubuntu forums & google from other people who had the same problem. The problem is my root terminal on manual recovery doesn't have networking. Only can use liveCD which I still can't connect to the internet because I use wlan0 from ndiswrapper.
I am a dual booter of Ubuntu 10.10 on one partition and Windows XP on other. I edited the grub to boot those. One HDD is partitioned into 2 drives so one partition holds XP and the other partition is a "translator" that holds files which both ubuntu and XP can access. (don't ask me why, I cleaned the dust off my PC recently after 3 years :P)
My outputs are:
/boot/grub/menu.lst
title LINUX - Ubuntu 10.10 - kernel 2.6.35-28-generic
root (hd1,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35-28-generic root=UUID=85de06c5-cf3e-46b8-8c14-2c217be8dd9d ro vga=0x317 splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.35-28-generic
quiet
title Windows XP Professional
root (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
/etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/hdb1
UUID=85de06c5-cf3e-46b8-8c14-2c217be8dd9d / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /dev/hdb5
UUID=8f71786e-e3b6-4f5a-b1ee-ce249dd4f57c none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0
blkid
/dev/sdb1: UUID="85de06c5-cf3e-46b8-8c14-2c217be8dd9d" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sdb5: UUID="8f71786e-e3b6-4f5a-b1ee-ce249dd4f57c" TYPE="swap"
/dev/sda1: UUID="DE2853AE28538485" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sda5: LABEL="TRANSLATOR" UUID="147553BCE0BA3D91" TYPE="ntfs"
- I commented the UUIDs, that doesn't work.
- I tried remounting it, no effect.
- I fsck'ed it, no effect.
- I booted using LiveCD but cannot connect to the internet due to wireless.
- Cannot apt-get update & upgrade due to no internet.
That's all I remember cos I basically tried alot different ways and cannot get it to boot.
I am thinking of formatting the mess and start all over again but I don't really want to do that because it is a good system, just that the grub file and fstab is kinda cluttered.
Any idea what I should do?