Ubuntu not booting: system _was_ working

[Dotan Cohen]

> There must be a reason why the system is read only, probably there are
> errors on the / partition. Run e2fsck for that partition.
>
> If that doesn't bring up an error I would reboot and remove the "quiet
> splash" options from the kernel command line in the grub menu. Then you
> might see the reason why / is mounted read only.
>

Thanks, I will do that this evening.

>> Other than
>> / no partitions are mounted. As /home is it's own partition I cannot
>> access my files there.
>
> I think /home can't be mounted because / is read only.
>

That sounds reasonable.

>> I then logged in as root (I do have a root
>> password) and tried running init 5 however that did nothing.
>
> Why did you expect that "init 5" might help in any way? Runlevel 5 is in
> no way special for Ubuntu. All runlevels 2 to 5 are the same unless you
> have your own special setup for runlevel 5. The standard runlevel for
> Ubuntu is 2.
>

Probably something that I learned in my Fedora days that is not
relevant to *buntu.

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Dotan Cohen

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