Nathan Otis
April 26th, 2008, 03:59 PM
It looks like after a couple flawless upgrades with Ubuntu, my luck has run out. I updated yesterday and now my system hangs on startup. The boot errors out and all I can see on the screen at this point says:
fsck 1.40.8 (13-Mar-2008 )
fsck.ext3:No such file or directory while trying to open /dev/hdb1
dev/hdb1:
The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2 filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2 filesystem, (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock: e2fsck -b 8193 <device>
fsck died with exit status 8
*File system check faild
A log is being saved in /var/log/fsck/checkfs if that location is writable.
*A maintenance shell will now be started.
CONTROL-D will terminate this shell and resume boot
bash: no job control in this shell
bash: groups: command not found
bash: lesspipe: command not found
bash: Command: command not found
bash: The: command not found
bash: dircolors: command not found
bash: Command: command not found
bash: The: command not found.
root@otis-desktop:~#
I press Control D and it does start up, but what is this error? It seems I need to run file system check on ext2, but I'm at a loss as to how.
Thanks in advance for any assistance,
n.
fsck 1.40.8 (13-Mar-2008 )
fsck.ext3:No such file or directory while trying to open /dev/hdb1
dev/hdb1:
The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2 filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2 filesystem, (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock: e2fsck -b 8193 <device>
fsck died with exit status 8
*File system check faild
A log is being saved in /var/log/fsck/checkfs if that location is writable.
*A maintenance shell will now be started.
CONTROL-D will terminate this shell and resume boot
bash: no job control in this shell
bash: groups: command not found
bash: lesspipe: command not found
bash: Command: command not found
bash: The: command not found
bash: dircolors: command not found
bash: Command: command not found
bash: The: command not found.
root@otis-desktop:~#
I press Control D and it does start up, but what is this error? It seems I need to run file system check on ext2, but I'm at a loss as to how.
Thanks in advance for any assistance,
n.