BigSilly
December 13th, 2007, 07:02 PM
Can anyone help me please? Wasn't sure where to put this, but hopefully this will be OK. Please move it to a relevant area if needs be.
I have a fairly small hard drive (80Gb) and I set it up with 40Gb for Ubuntu Gutsy, 20Gb for a spare FAT32 partition, and another 20Gb at the end which up until an hour ago had Mandriva 2008.
I decided I fancied a try of PCLOS to replace my Mandriva install. So I inserted the disc, installed it from the desktop, and though I'm not greatly techie minded I thought I'd requested it to add Ubuntu to the Grub menu fine. However when I rebooted it had listed it just fine, but wouldn't boot into it.
I had previously downloaded something called the Super Grub Disk (http://supergrub.forjamari.linex.org/), and in a bit of a panic I decided to use it to repair the boot record. This it seems to have done for the most part.
However, when I boot into Ubuntu now I get a load of text which interrupts the bootsplash like this:
fsck.ext3:Unable to resolve 'UUID = d981d2be-3dcb-4c70-bb6c-8d13fd2173ab'
fsck died with exit status 8
failed (code 8)
*file system check failed
It requests I either put in my root password, or press CTRL-D to continue, which then boots into Ubuntu just fine. But is there a way to restore it to how it was ie boots into Ubuntu without intervention from the user? What actually has happened here, and is it easy to fix?
Many, many thanks for your help from a bit of a...lets just say non-techie person!
I have a fairly small hard drive (80Gb) and I set it up with 40Gb for Ubuntu Gutsy, 20Gb for a spare FAT32 partition, and another 20Gb at the end which up until an hour ago had Mandriva 2008.
I decided I fancied a try of PCLOS to replace my Mandriva install. So I inserted the disc, installed it from the desktop, and though I'm not greatly techie minded I thought I'd requested it to add Ubuntu to the Grub menu fine. However when I rebooted it had listed it just fine, but wouldn't boot into it.
I had previously downloaded something called the Super Grub Disk (http://supergrub.forjamari.linex.org/), and in a bit of a panic I decided to use it to repair the boot record. This it seems to have done for the most part.
However, when I boot into Ubuntu now I get a load of text which interrupts the bootsplash like this:
fsck.ext3:Unable to resolve 'UUID = d981d2be-3dcb-4c70-bb6c-8d13fd2173ab'
fsck died with exit status 8
failed (code 8)
*file system check failed
It requests I either put in my root password, or press CTRL-D to continue, which then boots into Ubuntu just fine. But is there a way to restore it to how it was ie boots into Ubuntu without intervention from the user? What actually has happened here, and is it easy to fix?
Many, many thanks for your help from a bit of a...lets just say non-techie person!