Cant boot anymore
Hello,
I have dual boot system (win 7/ubuntu 11.10 64bit) with grub. When booting to ubuntu I have to press "S" (skip) four times to continue. So, I edited fstab with one program from synaptic (forget which). And after that I cant boot anymore :( I can boot to windows but when I choose ubuntu (from grub) after one second all stops (freezes) with black screen and cursor. Now I am booting with usb live 10.04 64bit and I have filesystems on HDD visible. And wait for help to recover my computer if possible. What to do? |
Hi,
What did you edit? Did you comment out lines or just bluntly removed them? Can you post the contents of your /etc/fstab? Kind regards, Eric |
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That being said it sounds as though your fstab is incorrect, although there would usually be some form of error, rather than a blank screen. Before you modified it, did you take a backup? If so, from the LiveUSB copy the backup fstab back to the original. If you didn't back it up, you will have to reconfigure fstab manually. |
Unfortunately, I didnt take backup.
I have to press "S" for skip mounting drives which dont exists or which are not ready for mounting yet. Thats why I am going to edit this. Now I really cant find which program was that. My HDD partition with linux now is named "229 Gb Filesystem" where would I found fstab? |
I find fstab in /etc/ directory!
However, there was one fstab.BAK which I renamed to fstab and reboot. So, Now I am at my old ubuntu :) And more, I found that program (from synaptic) which I uses for edit is "mountmanager". It seems that he make backup before writes new fstab! Luckily! I still have one error when booting-mounting (press S) but I can live with that. Thanks for helping! |
What specifically is the error? We may be able to help with that too
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Eric mentioned that lines in fstab can be commented.
I do so for reported drives and here are no more skip warnings at startup and my fstab now looks as follows: Code:
# /etc/fstab: static file system information. For example, if i plug usb stick named "Udisk" in places menu I get two new items "Udisk" and "usb0". With activating "Udisk" nothing happens, with usb0 disk's FS opens in nautilus. As I remember that don't work so before. Can this be fixed? |
Cant boot anymore, just edited synaptics
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Plz help to figure it out! |
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