asearle
June 10th, 2011, 01:42 PM
Hi Everyone,
I am trying to help a friend who had a problem (power-outage) during an upgrade from 10.10 to 11.04. Now he finds that grub will come up but the disk won't mount.
I took a look and it seems that the upgrade process has commented out the mounting of sda1 in /etc/fstab.
So I believe that I could fix the problem by editing his fstab file (and removing the commenting out). However, when I try to open fstab (with vi) it is read only. I have tried "sudo vi /etc/fstab" but it is also read-only.
Does anyone have any tips for me? Can/should I edit the fstab file? Or is there a simpler way to fix the problem (without running a complete install/overwrite)?
Many thanks for any tips or ideas that you can give me.
Regards,
Alan
I am trying to help a friend who had a problem (power-outage) during an upgrade from 10.10 to 11.04. Now he finds that grub will come up but the disk won't mount.
I took a look and it seems that the upgrade process has commented out the mounting of sda1 in /etc/fstab.
So I believe that I could fix the problem by editing his fstab file (and removing the commenting out). However, when I try to open fstab (with vi) it is read only. I have tried "sudo vi /etc/fstab" but it is also read-only.
Does anyone have any tips for me? Can/should I edit the fstab file? Or is there a simpler way to fix the problem (without running a complete install/overwrite)?
Many thanks for any tips or ideas that you can give me.
Regards,
Alan