Hi, I am running Linux Mint 8 (a french distribiution of Ubuntu), I did two updates online, the last one about a month ago, about three times (the last this morning) when I Shut Down the PC, the internal speaker gave in fast order about five sharp pieps and on the screen I saw some text scrolling down fast so that I was unable to read what was displayed. The first two times I restarted right away and everything seemed alright, this morning it gets stuck at starting up and I tried to fix it in Recovery Mode but no luck. I also tried the Live CD, no luck either.
I get text displayed in Recovery Mode, it says:-Missing modules (cat /proc/modules; Is /dev) ALERT! /dev/disk/by-uuid/27c86c8a-4786-4d74-a9c1-4c9887508401 does not exist. Dropping to a shell!
And some more, does anybosy have a clue what’s up?
Thanks
With that set of symptoms, particularly the one about /dev/disk/by-uuid/27c86c8a-4786-4d74-a9c1-4c9887508401, my money is on a drive failing. Use a live CD (a distro you can run straight from the CD without needing to use the hard drive) to try and mount the partitions on the hard drive and save everything on them you value to thumb drives or something. The next step is likely going to be to chuck the old drive and get a new one.
Maybe someone more experienced than I can offer a less drastic solution. Still, you should save everything you value first.
It’s not finding your hard drive reliably. If you can’t boot from the live CD then it is probably a motherboard failure.
Are you sure that the computer is set to boot from the CD first if one is inserted?
Some more info, I also have WinXP Professional running on the same PC and I am using it at the moment without a problem(so far), would it be helpfull for the purpose of finding out what’s going on, if I would post pictures of the displayed text?
Thanks again
The live CD not working is odd. I’ve had the same error message, I think (this was some time ago) I fixed it by booting from the Live CD and changing the /etc/fstab to use the normal disk labels (/dev/sda1 rather than the by-uuid alphanumeric).
I would tend to agree. I assume the OP has successfully booted from CDs in the past. A boot from a USB thumb drive would be the next thing I’d try.
Sorry, I am in the Philippines and I have very unreliable Internet Service, the Live CD is working no problem but I have no access to my Linux folders to save the contends
to a new location, that’s what I meant, that I had no luck.
You seem to suggest that there could be a simple (for the ones that know, not me, I am only a user)solution, are you inclined to give me instructions on how to attempt that?:rolleyes:
Sounds like a hard drive failure which is simple enough. Go buy a replacement drive and restore your backups. Hard drives are cheap these days.
Really? When Windows is running fine for him (post #4)? (I presume from a partition on the same drive.)
Oh, never mind then. I thought he couldn’t boot at all. My bad for not reading more closely.
I went to the Home page from Linux Mint (www.linuxmint.com) and got the information that my release is not supported anylonger since April this year and that it was a mistake to download the up-dates after april.
Maybe “blindboyard” will come up with a solution and else I will have to down load a new version of Linux Mint.
It looks to me like the linux file system on the hard drive is damaged, rather than the disk. It would help if you could tell us how your system was partitioned up.
Boot the LiveCD. Automounted volumes will appear on the desktop (in Gnome). If they are not automounting, you need to manually mount the file systems.
Open the Terminal, and run **mount ** to see what is available. You will be looking for a device that is /dev/sda? (or /dev/hda?) and probably type ext2/ext3. If it is not there, take a look in /dev for sda?/hda? entries. Tell us what you have.
Si
It’s also possible that there is physical damage, but it’s localized to the Linux partition. You know, just a few bad sectors. Either way, it does mean that one of your Linux partitions isn’t being properly detected.
If it is just the filesystem, fsck should work from the shell.
Ok, I have used the Live CD and was able to do what “c_blakely” suggested, here are the results: / dev / sda1 on /media 187440AF7440 9 204 type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,default_permission,blksize=4096)
I hope that helps
Thanks
OK, you can see /dev/sda1 (the first partition on disk sda) and it is mounted via FUSE into /media/ - so it is your NTFS (Windows XP) partition.
using Terminal again try cd /dev, then ls sda*.
This will tell you what partitions on /dev/sda your system can see.
You could also try running GParted from the LiveCD Menu to see the same information (but do not change anything - Partition Editors are capable of really screwing up your system).
I am expecting at least a /dev/sda2 (for linux), but the actual partition scheme could be more complex (/dev/sda2 could be an extended partition containing other partitions with Linux on /dev/sda3 etc)
Si