Kubuntu Boot troubleshooting
My first post on this forum... Been funbling with ubuntu for about a month now and slowly starting to really like it. But I ran into a snag.
Yesterday I turned it on, booted Kubuntu and it freezes during boot at swap: Waiting for UUID=xxx. One step before that, it says fsck unable to detect wmid devices... not sure if that is the cause or not. So I boot into 2.6.31-14 (same partition) and it ran perfectly. After some more fiddling, I decide to uninstall 2.6.31.15 and reinstall which synaptics decided to install .16 instead. After rebooting BOTH KERNELS fail with the same problem described above. I tried to boot either kernel in rescue mode but all I get is snowy white boxes. I thought rescue mode is no graphics... Out of desperation, during boot up I mashed atl, ctl and F1 and F2 and ctrl C and esc and somehow after beating on the keys like a rabid money, it booted up and worked. I suspect when I reboot it will be broke again... how do I begin to troubleshoot? Do I need to just reinstall? It's ok if I do, I made several partitions and have Ubuntu running in another partition as well as puppy in another one and XP... now how many newbs quadruple boot? LMAO! |
Welcome to LQ Kelly!
LOL Which version of Ubuntu? 9.10? maybe a re-install is best What other distros you tryin? |
Update
Yes. 9.10 UNR.
I have been goofing with Unbuntu, Kubuntu, Knoppix, BT3 and Puppy. I don't mind a reinstall, this particular partition has been buggy starting with the sound wigging out. BTW, I made progress... turns out the swap partition isn't mounting during boot. But if I break the mounting process, it boots in. I can then type swapon /dev/sda7 and it mounts perfectly. So during boot it can't mount the swap using the uuid but I can mount the swap manually. How do I fix that? Do I delete the partition and rebuild it as swap? |
One more thing, my other distros can use this swap just fine. Only this one can't mount it during boot.
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Checked the UUID in blkid and discovered the UUID in fstab was totally wrong. Changed it in fstab and all is well. Not sure how it got changed though....
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