ubuntu boot problem

[Ken Moffat]

On Sep 9, 2007, at 6:52 AM, Bill Davidson 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.
>
> Just one more solution, since you mentioned that you repartitioned the
> drive. The vol_id command can be used to get the UUID from a
> partition. For example on Ubuntu the following command will give the
> UUID for hda1:
>
> sudo vol_id -u /dev/hda1
>
> You can just put that value directly into /etc/fstab where you would
> normally put /dev/hda1.
>
> HTH,
> Bill
>

There is a 'list by uuid' type of command somewhere which will show 
your devices as UUID instead of /dev/????, but I can't find the email 
or forum post right now.

Ah, here it is:


ls /dev/disk/by-uuid -alh


Here is a good url:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=283131
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