Dan72 Posted March 5, 2008 Report Share Posted March 5, 2008 i got a old emachines desktop p2 633 mhz 512 mb ram running gutsy gibbon only after i ran the recent updates i get a message on boot up after the bios screen (look at attachment for message) I can run it in recovery mode with a earlier version but i am a linux novice so how do i get it to boot normally Quote Link to post Share on other sites
iccaros Posted March 5, 2008 Report Share Posted March 5, 2008 so you can boot a cd and mount the root partition, have you run FSCK ? is this disk (0,0 ) (or hda0 ) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Dan72 Posted March 5, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 5, 2008 so you can boot a cd and mount the root partition, have you run FSCK ? is this disk (0,0 ) (or hda0 )i can boot to a cd and mount both partitions , I thought it was a HD crashI dont know if it is disk (0,0) or hda I have not run the fsck yet , how do you run it Quote Link to post Share on other sites
iccaros Posted March 5, 2008 Report Share Posted March 5, 2008 (edited) so you can boot a cd and mount the root partition, have you run FSCK ? is this disk (0,0 ) (or hda0 )i can boot to a cd and mount both partitions , I thought it was a HD crashI dont know if it is disk (0,0) or hda I have not run the fsck yet , how do you run itonce you boot the cd, do not mount the partition but (as root) run fsck followed by the location you mount for root, what is the location, if its not hda or sda then your issues is that root in grub is pointing to the wrong place. when you say both partitions, what are the two partitions? root and boot or are you talking about swaphttp://linux.die.net/man/8/fsck Edited March 5, 2008 by iccaros Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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