ubuntu boot problem

[Lonni J Friedman]

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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