Ubuntu not booting: system _was_ working

[Florian Diesch]

Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a two-week old Kubuntu 8.04 installation that is now failing to
> boot. When I start the computer, I get the Kubuntu graphic, then it
> drops to tty1 and I get a text login. When I log in with my username
> and password I get a message that the system is read only. Other than
> / no partitions are mounted. As /home is it's own partition I cannot
> access my files there. I then logged in as root (I do have a root
> password) and tried running init 5 however that did nothing.
>
> What must I do to diagnose this? Thanks.

Have a look at the output of dmesg


   Florian
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