Re: ubuntu - filesystem fails on boot

On Mon, 05 Jun 2006 14:01:23 +0000, James de lurker wrote:

andy baxter wrote:
The point as far as I can see is that it shouldn't be checking the root
filesystem /at all/ at that point in the bootup - it's already been
checked earlier on before it was mounted read-write. The script is telling
fsck not to check the root partition (which is marked as such in
/etc/fstab), so I really don't understand why this is happening.

Any other thoughts?

Well, not believing in that installation. Fair to say that you've done
the usual to eliminate hardware issues. Something is broken for sure!

At this point I'd use Ghost to partition image what is on there, and
reserve it to restore and resume later ( if you have a large investment
of time in building it ). Save the MBR and partition tables of the
disk and CMOS settings ( PC-CHECK is a nice tool for that ). If you
have Windows systems too you can use Ghost explorer to access individual
files inside the highly compressed partition images. Span them CD size
if the machine is CD reader or CDRW only.

I'm not going to bother with this because I've already backed up the drive
to DVD before I installed ubuntu.

Then I'd put something else basic in there, and closely examine the
startup process if its the same distro. Try a different, stable, distro
with the same kernel? Maybe even a true Debian system if its Ubuntu, a
derivative. Knowing exactly what the kernel initial image is doing for
your configuration of hardware is useful too...

So far I know it doesn't do this with ubuntu Hoary Hedgehog, but does
with both breezy badger and dapper drake.

This kind of "diffing" to isolate a pernicious fault can converge
rapidly on the exact point of difficulty.

Thats a big diversion, but I always make a point of having a FULL system
partition image scale backup every quarter anyway, as I tend to
customize heavily any OS I get my hands on...

YMMV - depends entirely on how valuable this troublesome incarnation is
to you, and how much effort you are willing to expend to fix it.

I like ubuntu a lot from the point of view of usability and the effort
they've put into making all the parts look nice and work together (e.g.
the graphical config tools). I'm just worried now that the underlying
system isn't as soundly built as debian. So from my point of view it's
worth finding out what's wrong if I'm going to carry on using this distro.

Game on! Best of Luck finding out what has borked the startup.

I don't really know where to go from here, except to see what happens if I
install it on another machine.



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