<div class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Courier New">On Mon Jun 25 00:42:33 2007<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Felix Miata<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>wrote:<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></FONT></div> <div class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p></div> <div class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Courier New">> I don't have a lot of Ubuntu experience in general, or with</FONT></div> <div class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Courier New">> Feisty specifically, but having installed Feisty a week ago </FONT></div> <div class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Courier New">> and again today on separate systems, the latter of which is </FONT></div> <div class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Courier New">>
similar to yours in</FONT></div> <div class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Courier New">> </FONT><FONT face="Courier New">having an Intel 845G Brookdale chipset, I'm suspecting from </FONT></div> <div class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Courier New">> your lack of live filesystem message, and a fsck failure </FONT></div> <div class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Courier New">> message </FONT><FONT face="Courier New">that I was getting on every boot that I fixed by </FONT></div> <div class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Courier New">> eradicating UUID=* cruft </FONT><FONT face="Courier New">from my fstab, that your /etc/fstab </FONT></div> <div class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Courier New">> is out of sync with /dev/disk/by-uuid. If you can get something </FONT></div> <div class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT
face="Courier New">> to boot in maintenance mode, live Linux CD maybe, so that you </FONT></div> <div class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Courier New">> can edit that file, strip out the</FONT></div> <div class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Courier New">> </FONT><FONT face="Courier New">UUID=* portion of the root filesystem entry, leaving it in </FONT></div> <div class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Courier New">> the standard old-fashioned /dev/xdx# format you're used </FONT></div> <div class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Courier New">> to from pre-libata days, I'll bet a buck you can get it to boot.<o:p></o:p></FONT></div> <div class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p></div> <div class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Courier New">The problem is that I cannot get Ubuntu to install
at all, so there are no files on my hard disk that I can edit. At the point at which the install fails I am looking at what must be a ram disc with a very simplified shell. There is no /etc/fstab though there are files in /dev/disk/by-uuid. I can't find an editor, but I can create small files with 'echo' or make simple changes with sed. I am hoping that there is some boot option that will help, but do not know enogh to work it out.</FONT></o:p></div> <div class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Courier New"></FONT></o:p> </div> <div class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Courier New"></FONT></o:p> </div><BR><BR>Martin<br>mptxyz@yahoo.co.uk<p>
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