startup troubles with ubuntu 9.10

[Robert Moreau]

David & Pedro thanks. Everything is back in working order.

Luv it.

On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 10:16 PM, David Vincent
<dvincent at sleepdeprived.ca>wrote:

> On 11-01-23 07:06 PM, Robert Moreau wrote:
>
>> Mount of filesystem failed.
>> A maintenance shell will now be started.
>> CONTROL-D will terminate this shell and retry.
>>
>> root at server-desktop:"#
>>
>> After restarting my machine I can't seem to get past this in the boot
>> screen.  Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
>>
>>
> 1.  which filesystem failed? have you any clue which device or partition?
> /dev/sda1 or some such thing?
>
> 2.  at that maintenance shell, try an "fsck" on the device - if you've been
> able to figure out which one. fsck /dev/sda1 for example. it may fix
> whatever is keeping that filesystem from mounting.
>
> 3.  you could boot from a Ubuntu LiveCD and then fsck each partition or
> filesystem to make sure there are no errors if you can't figure out which is
> the problem one.
>
> 4.  also boot from a Ubuntu LiveCD and use the Disk Utility to check the
> health of your hard drives.
>
>
> http://www.linux.com/community/blogs/new-hard-drive-utility-in-ubuntu-910-palimpsest.html
>
> hth
>
> -d
>
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