ubuntu boot problem

Bob Hemus ol.bob at sisqtel.net
Fri Sep 7 19:44:21 PDT 2007


On Fri, 2007-09-07 at 19:06 -0700, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> On 9/7/07, Bob Hemus <ol.bob at sisqtel.net> wrote:
> > Folks, somehow I've bugered up, again.  I've got a couple of other
> > distros on my hda, Winders, Debisn, Ubuntu 7.04, & kbuntu 7.04.  I'm
> > using the Ubuntu 7.04.  When I get to the grub menu and pick Ubuntu
> > 7.04, it begins to load normally, but about half way through it jumps to
> > a text load with this error message, among others:
> >
> > fsck.ext3:unable to resolve
> > uuid=304ff5cc-ed19-4d45-adb2-3ea9480b63e4
> > fsck died with exit status 8
> >
> > Then the instructions say cntl D, and it finishes loading, but then
> > going by 'til I stop it I see:
> >
> > Mount: special device /dev/disk/by-uuid=304ff5cc-ed19-4d45-
> >     adb2-3ea9480b63e4 does not exist
> >
> > Do I need to make a device? or a directory or ?
> > Now that Susan is back, any help from you fine Lady or gentlemen will be
> > greatly appreciated.
> 
> That's really horked.  Ubuntu's speial disk UUID sauce appears to have
> blown up.  Did you repartition the disk or something since the last
> time this worked?
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Yup, sure did.  Not this partition, though.  Every thing seems to still
work, though?
Bob



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