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ubuntu 10.10 boot problem

Asked by Bruce Ascalon

 I have installed my ubuntu 10.10 for almost a month now with no booting problems. My system hanged up on me, and I had to restart. Now it doesnt boot, sends me into busy box. Is there anyway I can remount the root system on /dev/sda6 ext4? I dont want to reinstall, I just want to recover my old settings. I checked it on livecd and it was unmounted and had errors on it.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

You should have your settings as part of your backups. Then you would have no issue.....

I suggest you boot to live CD and fsck the partition. Hard powering off systems is not good for them physically, especially with RAM and hard drives. If you get system hangs I suggest you try X server restarts instead of hitting the power.

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Bruce Ascalon (feralcounty) said : 		#2

Thanks, I'm still new to ubuntu, I migrated here from xp and win7. I'll do all your suggestions.

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Bruce Ascalon (feralcounty) said : 		#3

Thanks, I'm still new to ubuntu, I migrated here from xp and win7. I'll do all your suggestions.

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delance (olivier-delance) said : 		#4

First step is trying to reinstall Grub2 (the bootloader):
   https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2#Reinstalling%20from%20LiveCD
You have a good probability of recover your system.

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Tom (tom6) said : 		#5

Hi :)

Please boot-up a LiveCd and get to a command-line
Applications - Accessories - Terminal
and give us the output of this command

sudo fdisk -l

where "-l" is a lower-case "-L". Note that right-click mouse works for copy&paste but keyboard shortcuts don't. The LiveCd should let you navigate into here.
Please let us know how you are doing!
Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

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delance (olivier-delance) said : 		#6

I read this thread a little too fast.
Could you from Grub menu, choose the third line (previous kernel) ? It could be linked to upgrade to a new kernel installed by update-manager.

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