Ubuntu 9.10 crashes during booting. It stops with filesystem check message.

Please make an fsck on yourd disk partition using the live cd... using live cd please copy and paste the result of this terminal command:

sudo fdisk -l

Hi Marco,
I ran the fsck on the partition using the live cd.
Then I run the sudo fdisk -l command and this was the output:

Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x1549f232

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 38156 306488038+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 38157 38913 6080602+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 38157 38913 6080571 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Now the boot process still stops in the same first splash screen, but there is no message about checking the filesystem.

please tell the video card you are using... give us the result of

lspci | grep -i vga

if it is an ati card please try this:

https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-driver-ati/+question/85535

Hope this helps

This is the output of:
lspci | grep -i vga

04:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G72 [GeForce 7500 LE] (rev a1)

Please try

sudo dpkg --configure -a
sudo aptitude install -f
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get --reinstall install nvidia-current

and if you get graphic try:

sudo nvidia-xconfig

Hi Marco,

Please, could you explain how to enter the above commands? if I try to boot from my hard drive my desktop will get frozen on the first splash screen. Shall I do this from the Live CD?

no not using the live cd... boot your pc from the installed ubuntu and press ctrl+alt+f2 made login with your user and password the type the above commands...

ctrl+alt+f2 does not respond... the pc is frozen at the first splash screen (the black one with the ubuntu round logo in the middle).

I tried ctrl+alt+f2 again and this time it went to alternate between a totally blank screen and a blank screen with some moving and flashing dashes in the middle of the screen. At the same time some noise was coming from the hard drive (like it was reading or something)... it did that for a while and then I have some white dashes at the bottom of the screen with the moving/flashing dashes in the middle of the screen.
Any clue?

Hi, I still need help with this... any clue?
Thanks.

Please boot from Ubuntu live install cd and perform a fully filesystem check using that cd...

Using live cd to see the partitions name to check please open a terminal and type:

sudo fdisk -l

thne perform filesystem check and correct errors with this command...

sudo fsck /dev/sd......

Hope this helps