[ubuntu-us-nc] Grub2 Difficulties

[Bill Farrow]

On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 2:18 PM, Dick Smith <dsmithnc at gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, end result, it's working again.  I don't know why but it is.  I tried

It's great that you got it working, even if you don't know how :-)

> MESSAGES AFTER Mount:
> Feb  3 18:36:32 ubuntu kernel: [  500.285653] SQUASHFS error:
> squashfs_read_data failed to read block 0x322adfa3

Perhaps your /boot/initrd.img-2.6.xx file was corrupt, or the
filesystem/disk that it resides on was bad.

> MESSAGE RECEIVED IN TERMINAL WHEN RUNNING e2fsck:
>
> ubuntu at ubuntu:~$ sudo e2fsck /dev/sda1
> e2fsck 1.41.11 (14-Mar-2010)
> /dev/sda1 is mounted.
>
> WARNING!!!  The filesystem is mounted.   If you continue you ***WILL***
> cause ***SEVERE*** filesystem damage.

Well, next time you boot with the live CD, you can safely unmount the
partition first and then run fsck.  I didn't realize that the live CD
mounts your all of disks, at least when it does it mounts them
read-only to accidents.

Bill