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oat_
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?

Hedgehog1
May 18th, 2011, 02:30 AM
If you boot from the 11.04 LiveCD/LiveUSB, you may have an upgrade path offered in the 'install 11.04'.

http://img848.imageshack.us/img848/874/upgradetonatty.png

If this is not offered, if you have your data in a separate '/home' partition you can reinstall 11.04 over your 10.10 '/' partition and be sure to not format the '/home' partition:

First, define your '/' (root) partition:

http://img31.imageshack.us/img31/7520/04allocdrivespace2.png

http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/9673/05allocdrivespace3.png

Then define your '/home' partition:

IF YOU ARE DOING AN UPGRADE, DO NOT FORMAT THIS PARTITION!

http://img202.imageshack.us/img202/6828/07allocdrivespace5.png

This separates your documents and 'stuff' from the system files and 'stuff' in the '/' partition.

The Hedge

:KS

p.s. To learn how to move your '/home' into it's own partition: SeparateHomePartition (http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/separatehome)

oat_
May 18th, 2011, 12:17 PM
Thank you for the response!

Booted using Ubuntu 11.04 LiveCD but failed:



[ 0.016437] [Hardware Error] : No human readable MCE decoding support on this CPU type.
[ 0.016502] [Hardware Error] : Run the message through 'mcelog --ascii' to decode.
General error mounting filesystems.
A maintenance shell will now be started.
CONTROL-D will terminate this shell and reboot the system.
bash: /root/.bashrc: Input/output error
root@ubuntu:~#



Maybe I should try the Wubi installer using the Windows XP?

oat_
May 25th, 2011, 02:14 PM
bump.

oat_
May 26th, 2011, 08:55 PM
Hmm.

I waited for a week.

Any idea?

oat_
May 31st, 2011, 08:08 PM
I'm guessing that the silence to my thread means there isn't anyone who are willing to help me? Or is there no ways I can fix this?

I will appreciate it if someone response to this and guide me to saving my files.

oat_
June 1st, 2011, 10:37 PM
Thanks.

bcbc
June 1st, 2011, 11:39 PM
You cannot use Wubi to install over a normal install.

You probably have a problem with your Ubuntu CD (a bad burn?). Boot from it, hit spacebar when little keyboard appears, and select to check the CD from the extended menu.
If there is a problem burn another.