[wellylug] Ubuntu boot issue
Steve Macdonald
dakmani1 at yahoo.co.nz
Thu Feb 8 12:15:18 NZDT 2007
Jonathan Harker <jon at jon.geek.nz> wrote: Steve Macdonald wrote:
> I have Ubuntu dual booting on a laptop but all of a sudden on start up
> get this on start up
> Now it boots into its windows installation fine, and if I reinstall
> Ubuntu it still comes up with this message. It was previously booting fine.
What does your partition table look like?
You should be able to fix the boot sector MBR using fdisk or gparted if
you boot from your Ubuntu cd.
>From what I have read I need to edit the 6th line of the fstab file to read "0" not "1" which will prevent it checking the Fat32 partition which is the partition causing the errors.
When I boot into the live cd and click on gparted it just freezes, I can edit the fstab file if I can find it but on the live cd it does not allow me to view the hda4 which is where the fstab file is stored.
Sorry about my lack of correct terminology and the fact I dont have the patience to constantly search the correct way of fixing it (I have been searching on the ubuntu forums)
How do I view hda4 as obviously the drive is not mounted on the live cd?
Ohh and answer to your question which I hope I have right
hda1 Windows XP Fat32
hda2 Fat32 (shared drive)
hda3 I think is Swap
hda4 ext is /
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