[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu not booting up

[David King, linux user]

I should also add that the hard disk is still quite new.

-----Original Message-----
From: David King <linuxman at avoura.com>
To: UK Ubuntu Talk <ubuntu-uk at lists.ubuntu.com>
Sent: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 11:30
Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu not booting up


On 19/11/12 10:31, Simon Greenwood wrote:
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> On 19 November 2012 10:22, David King <linuxman at avoura.com 
> <mailto:linuxman at avoura.com>> wrote:
>
>     I am using Ubuntu Studio 12.04 and all was well until today, now I
>     can no longer boot into it. I get some text on the screen but it
>     does not get as far as letting me log in.
>
>     First it was some messages about not being able to touch some
>     files in my home directory due to read only file system. I did a
>     hard reboot (keyboard was unresponsive) and then next time I tried
>     to boot there were various other messages. I had to hard reboot
>     again and boot into a different distro.
>
>     What could be wrong with it?
>
>
> The first issue suggests that you might have a problem with your disk 
> but we need more information Is the other distro working? Can you see 
> the Ubuntu Studio partition from the other distro? How is your machine 
> configured?
>
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I can boot into Linux Mint from the same hard disk (using it now). I can 
see the Ubuntu Studio partition okay, it is not corrupted. I also did a 
filesystem check and that did not turn up any errors.


David


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