recovery mode
Andre Mangan
andremangan at gmail.com
Sun Aug 5 22:42:42 BST 2007
OK, Tony,
This time we will put into effect what Frode suggested.
In the Terminal, type (without quotation marks) "sudo nano /etc/fstab" press
Enter and you will see a prompt for your password. After you have entered
your password and pressed Enter you will see a screen with your fstab file.
Scroll to the end of the line that says: /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto
0 0 and press Enter to create the new line.
You scroll with your up/down/sideways arrow keys on your keyboard.
Then press Control+X to save, confirm (Y) and then exit by pressing Enter.
Then type exit into the terminal screen to close it.
Then reboot and keep your fingers crossed.
Cheers,
Andre
On 06/08/07, Anthony J Brow <tbrow at tpg.com.au> wrote:
>
> Hi Andrew,-----thanks for persisting with me--- here goes:
>
> oshua at joshua-desktop:~$ cat /etc/fstab
> # /etc/fstab: static file system information.
> #
> # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
> proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
> # /dev/sda2
> UUID=e91203b7-e4dd-4648-a341-6a3a47b30c65 / ext3
> defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
> # /dev/sda1
> UUID=82286B4D286B3F73 /media/sda1 ntfs
> defaults,nls=utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0 1
> # /dev/sda4
> UUID=fa6315d7-9bd8-431b-aab8-179f9e875358 /media/sda4 ext3
> defaults 0 2
> # /dev/sda5
> UUID=53d74c43-ed51-4868-8c5f-dae61e042b49 none swap sw
> 0 0
> /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
> /dev/ /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0
> 0joshua at joshua-djoshua@joshua-desktop:~$
>
> hope this makes sense to you
>
>
> On Sun, 2007-08-05 at 14:19 +1000, Andre Mangan wrote:
> > If you are quick enough you might be able to use the Pause button on
> > your keyboard just at the right time. But leave that for the moment,
> > it may not be important.
> >
> > Tony, could you post a copy of your fstab file please. I gather that
> > you are a bit nervous of doing things in the terminal but I will give
> > you clear instructions on how to do this.
> >
> > Open the Terminal and type "cat /etc/fstab" (without the quotation
> > marks) and press Enter. That will give an indication as to how your
> > file system is configured and your drives.
> >
> > Copy that output and paste it into the return email.
> >
> >
> >
> > On 05/08/07, Anthony J Brow <tbrow at tpg.com.au> wrote:
> > Thanks Andrew
> > Hope I 've done the right thing. I copied your suggested
> > input, did the
> > reboot and got a black screen, where a check of "/dev/sda2
> > and /dev
> > sda4" was going on. At the end of '/dev/sda4' I saw the
> > warning again
> > "no final newline at the end of /etc/fstab'. But---- there
> > was some
> > other stuff to read as well, but the check ended that quick,
> > so that I
> > could not read it, except a very quick glance of the "no
> > final newline
> > at the end of /etc/fstab" line. Is there a way to keep that
> > info on the
> > screen so it can be read properly ?
> >
> > On Sun, 2007-08-05 at 09:10 +1000, Andre Mangan wrote:
> > > Sorry, I forgot to add that you need to reboot after that
> > command.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On 05/08/07, Andre Mangan <andremangan at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Tony, could you try to run the diskcheck programme
> > by typing
> > > "sudo touch /forcefsck" into the Terminal (without
> > the
> > > quotation marks.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Andre
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On 03/08/07, Anthony J Brow <tbrow at tpg.com.au >
> > wrote:
> > > Hi Everyone,
> > >
> > > Your expertise will be really
> > appreciated
> > > here. When installing
> > > Skype, I
> > > was testing the sound as there was
> > no sound.
> > > Just could not get
> > > it
> > > work.Trying sound settings,is where
> > my
> > > troubles started. Lost
> > > ALL sound.
> > > Then trying to get an email address
> > from the
> > > 'evolution' address
> > > book,
> > > the system froze, I had to
> > reboot.Tried
> > > again , same result.
> > > Tried a
> > > label/business card program and it
> > froze. I
> > > decided to try the
> > > 'generic
> > > recovery mode'. There was an answer
> > towards
> > > the end:
> > >
> > > * Mounting local file systems*
> > > (mntent): Warning ! No final newline
> > at the
> > > end of /etc/fstab/
> > >
> > > well, I looked it up in google, but
> > the
> > > answers made no sense to
> > > this
> > > nooby, seeing some expected to go to
> > the '
> > > root' area. I have
> > > seen
> > > warnings NOT to fiddle with
> > that. So where do
> > > I go from here ?
> > > I don't wanna loose my pictures or
> > email
> > > addresses, by a total
> > > re-install from the Feisty Cd.
> > >
> > > thanks in advance
> > > --
> > > Anthony J Brow <tbrow at tpg.com.au>
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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> > >
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> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > andremangan at gmail.com
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > andremangan at gmail.com
> > --
> > Anthony J Brow <tbrow at tpg.com.au>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > andremangan at gmail.com
> --
> Anthony J Brow <tbrow at tpg.com.au>
>
>
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