<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>I typed 'fsck' and got:</div><div><br></div><div>WARNING!!! The filesystem is mounted. If you continue you ***WILL***<br>cause ***SEVERE*** filesystem damage.<br>Do you really want to continue<n>? </div><div><br></div><div>So that scared the hell out of me and I said 'n' immediately!</div><div>Do I really want to continue?</div><div><br></div><div>Bill<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 18 Feb 2019 at 07:18, Frans de waal <<a href="mailto:meesterarend@gmail.com">meesterarend@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">You can use "Disks" to check the smart data, also runs fsck from command line to check the partitions, I usually use it with the - f option even when it tells me the disk is clean.<div dir="auto">I had to reinstall everything this weekend due to a bad hdd too and had to format the install drive for the install to work reliably. 2nd time it worked flawlessly. <br><div dir="auto"><br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, 17 Feb 2019, 16:16 Bill Cairns, <<a href="mailto:cairnsww@gmail.com" target="_blank">cairnsww@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>An update on this problem. It seem that the hard drive definitely has a problem. I reinstalled Grub on it and also on the SSD then re-installed 18.04 on the SSD only. I tried to allow access to the hard drive (my home directory is still there) by an fstab entry but no joy. However, I can access the hard drive and can mount the home directory using 'mount UUID=xxxxx /home'. I don't understand why this works and the fstab route doesn't. But then I don't understand very much.</div><div><br></div><div>My next action will be to take the hard drive to the doctor for a physical check up.<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 12 Feb 2019 at 17:49, Paolo Gigante <<a href="mailto:paolo.gigante.sa@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">paolo.gigante.sa@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi Bill,<div><br></div><div>As a starting point, I would unplug the 1TB completely and do a fresh install on the SSD. I would also delete any pre-existing partitions on that SSD and start from scratch (NB! Make sure you backup any data you want before you blow it all away). That way you are hopefully eliminating any interference from a previous install. </div><div><br></div><div>Personally I have not had the greatest experience with Ubuntu18 so I still use 16.04 but that would be my first step in getting it working.</div><div><br></div><div>Once you get your system up and running, you can add the 1TB at a later stage, you may need to adjust boot order in your bios if you have a boot record on the 1TB.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 1:34 PM Bill Cairns <<a href="mailto:cairnsww@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">cairnsww@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi All,</div><div><br></div><div>I arrived home (after being away in Joeys for the weekend attending my grandson's 18th birthday party) and my Ubuntu 18.04 would not boot. it went most of the way through the boot process but then dropped into terminal mode and told me that ' we are in emergency mode'. The error message, a few lines above, says 'Failed to load Kernel Modules'.</div><div><br></div><div>As I was quite keen on doing a clean up anyway, I thought that this was a good opportunity to do a fresh install. So I tried that. (I now think that this was a very poor decision, but there is no going back now unfortunately.)</div><div><br></div><div>The install does not go through cleanly. At the end it gives me an error message that it could not clean up past packages or something. (I am sorry - I should have noted this down but didn't.) It then tells me to remove the installation media and reboot. I do, but the same error as before - Failed to load Kernel Modules.</div><div><br></div><div>i have tried Googling this error but all the situations described do not come close to being the same as mine - usually people seem to get the eror after upgrading. I have not just upgraded and have been running 18.04 since July or August last year.I am afraid that the solutions that I read on Google confuse me completely and I have not understood them well enough to think of trying any of them.<br></div><div><div><br></div><div>My configuration might be a bit unusual - I have a 1TB hard drive with my Home directory (and the boot sector). I also have a 128Mb SSD for the operating system. This has been running happily since October or so (and seems to work very well and fast).</div><div><br></div><div>(I did trying installing the boot sector on the SSD but still get the same error.)</div><div><br></div><div>I have no idea whether I am facing a hardware error or if I have somehow destroyed something important. The only extraordinary happenings have been some power failures - not only this week with load sharing but two strange ones last week before I went away.<br></div><div><br></div><div>I would appreciate any ideas or pointers in the right direction.</div><div><br></div><div>Bill</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div>
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