[wellylug] Ubuntu boot issue

[Daniel Pittman]

Steve Macdonald <dakmani1 at yahoo.co.nz> writes:
> 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.

NOTE: If you do that the problem will be "solved," in that it will
vanish away silently at boot.

Using that partition can then happily go ahead and corrupt the data you
put on it, eventually destroying some valuable content that (irony being
what it is) you only have one copy of.


In other words: when you have a corrupt file system the "fix" of not
bothering to check that will /not/ fix the underlying problem.

Regards,
        Daniel
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