<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 11:25 AM, Basil Chupin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:blchupin@iinet.net.au">blchupin@iinet.net.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
I guess this is where I now ask if I am missing something here :-) .<br>
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I have a computer which is switched off.<br>
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I switch it on and while the BIOS is being read in I press the CD ROM<br>
button and insert the CD containing Gparted and the system boots into<br>
Gparted, not Ubuntu.<br></blockquote><div><br>OK, this is totally random, as far as I can tell. Why would you do this, when you have Ubuntu working? <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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I then use Gparted's mc to edit the directory tree and fstab to replace<br>
all capitalised Windows to lower case windows.<br></blockquote><div><br>Again, totally random. <br><br>Remember, when you boot from a CD, you could have different settings than when you boot Ubuntu. (Which is why Ubuntu and others have been going to UUIDs, because /dev/sda1 might not be the same thing when booting off the hard drive as it is from CD.)<br>
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I then exit Gparted, boot the computer and while it is doing this I<br>
remove the Gparted CD - and the computer will then boot normally off the<br>
HD where the corrections to fstab and the dirctory tree have been made<br>
(I know that they have been made because I can see them with mc in<br>
Gparted when I again boot with Gparted to re-edit all the lower case to<br>
caps so that Ubuntu can boot). </blockquote><div><br>Well, you hope they were made correctly, but you don't *really* know it. You might have made some mistake in the process. After all, you weren't running Ubuntu at the time, were you?<br>
</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">However, Ubuntu does not boot, and from<br>
past experience it is "telling" me that it cannot find the partitions<br>
mentioned in fstab - or so I think :-) .<br></blockquote><div><br>If you had actually made all the changes while in Ubuntu, you would *know*. As it is, you can only *hope* you didn't make some error while booting a different OS.<br>
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Where am I deluding myself? :-)<br>
<div><div></div><br></div></blockquote><div><br>Well, you don't know for sure what happened, do you?<br><br>Did you change any permissions on any of the files or directories you changed? Did you do something else inadvertent while *not running Ubuntu*?<br>
<br>Now you have to worry about what else you might have done.<br><br>All because you chose some random approach, instead of making the changes while you were successfully using Ubuntu. That is the more sensible approach. <br>
<br>If you don't like how Ubuntu is mounting a partition, use Ubuntu to change it.<br><br>And use Ubuntu to test it, etc. No need to do something weird for no reason.<br> </div></div>-- <br>John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own<br>
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