ubuntu boot problem

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 9/7/07, Bob Hemus <ol.bob at sisqtel.net> wrote:
> 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?
> --------------------
> Yup, sure did.  Not this partition, though.  Every thing seems to still
> work, though?

Clearly everything doesn't still work, as you can't boot Ubuntu any
longer.  Sorry, I can't help you on this one.  Using UUIDs for
partiton IDs seems like a rather short-sighted approach, or at the
very least its incredibly fragile.  Some googling did turn up others
with this same fate:
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/redhat-fedora-linux-help/60464-uuid-incorrect-drive-lvm-after-running-fdisk-new-drive.html
http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/sf-lug/2007q1/001208.html


What you can try doing is to specify the actual block device name
(/dev/hda1, /dev/sdb3, etc) in place of that UUID in /etc/fstab.

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