CurtisB
March 1st, 2012, 02:06 AM
The other day my desktop (running Ubuntu 11.10) suddenly stopped working. I have no idea what started all this, but after some tinkering here is where I am:
I can now get through to the GRUB menu, and it starts loading, but it stops and says "An error occurred while mounting /mnt/sdb"
I can either skip or go to a manual recovery
skip causes a black screen with flickering, and eventually some messages
###Something cut off###
* Stopping System V runlevel compatibility [ OK ]
* Starting MySQL Server [ OK ]
_
At this point I can reach a virtual terminal and go through my hard drive and do everything with no troubles, just no GUI
manual recovery drops me into a root terminal and it's the same story.
I used these terminals to backup (everyone: always keep backups, very important!) my work and tried to do a clean install, but I just got a very uninformative error message.
I have no idea where to go from here, if anyone could offer any advice, I would really appreciate it.
~Curtis
I can now get through to the GRUB menu, and it starts loading, but it stops and says "An error occurred while mounting /mnt/sdb"
I can either skip or go to a manual recovery
skip causes a black screen with flickering, and eventually some messages
###Something cut off###
* Stopping System V runlevel compatibility [ OK ]
* Starting MySQL Server [ OK ]
_
At this point I can reach a virtual terminal and go through my hard drive and do everything with no troubles, just no GUI
manual recovery drops me into a root terminal and it's the same story.
I used these terminals to backup (everyone: always keep backups, very important!) my work and tried to do a clean install, but I just got a very uninformative error message.
I have no idea where to go from here, if anyone could offer any advice, I would really appreciate it.
~Curtis