Ubuntu
util-linux package

Cannot mount /home at boot.

Asked by M. Shahnawaz Khan

Hi,
I have two SATA hard disks on my computer. SATA1 is Windows 7 and SATA2 is Ubuntu Linux 10.04 Desktop. I have kept both the drives totally independent; however when starting the computer I can choose the OS system I need to boot, from the Boot Menu of the BIOS.

While installing Ubuntu, I unlugged the Windows hard disk to avoid any conflicts etc. and the installation went absolutely without errors. Now, when I plug-in the Windows hard drive and boot from Ubuntu hard drive, I get an error message as below:

"Serious Error were found while checking the disk drive for /home"
"Press I to Ignore, S to Skip Mounting or M for Manual Recovery"

Out of above options, "I" doesnt work; I am not very familiar with Manual Recovery so didnt try it; and on pressing "S", I get a couple of more error messages and the boot process halts.

However, when I unplug the Windows hard drive, Ubuntu boots normally. And Windows works fine even when all the drives are plugged in. Please help, if someone knows whats wrong and how to fix it.
Thank you.

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Best actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

If you boot to live CD, and run:

sudo blkid

do you see all partitions?

If you then mount the root partition from the places menu, you can check the fstab in the system to make sure it is present in fstab etc so that it mounts correctly. I also suggest you fsck the partitions (unmounted of course) so that you know the data is consistant.

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M. Shahnawaz Khan (msnkhan) said : 		#2

Thanks actionparsnip, that solved my question.

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M. Shahnawaz Khan (msnkhan) said : 		#3

Hi, Thank you very much for your suggestion, it worked and now the system is working as expected.