Ubuntu :: Mounting - Primary Disk Will Not Load The GUI Of 9.10
Dec 12, 2010
It all started when I attempted (and did) reformat my 2nd hdd in the computer. I was able to finally combine all the partitions into one after moving the data to an external drive. But, I could then not write to that drive?
So, I visited the fstab file, and set that drive to be readable by everyone... When I re-booted, now my primary disk will not load the GUI of Ubuntu 9.10, but puts up a screen with a white terminal in the upper left.
Running sudo mount -a tells me that the partition is not being loaded, maybe it's an entire disk or a different partition?
I changed nothing in the file about the primary HDD, so don't know how that came to be... suddenly the HD2 not being writeable is NOT the major problem...
What I have is:
The drive (HD1) is sda2, and that is what is not loading. I copied the contents of fstab, but when I opened firefox from the terminal, it erased it from the clipboard... I'll have to write it down and type it into this thread... any ideas on what the designation should be for sda2?
View 8 Replies
ADVERTISEMENT
Jul 14, 2011
Just the last day or so, I've noticed a long pause when I boot my laptop, with lots of disk activity. dmesg says:
[Code]...
Why would there be a 15-second pause (during which the disk is slammed) between mounting root and mounting swap? During this time I see nothing but a blank purple screen, there are no cycling dots or text scroll. Is this normal and I'm just freaking out over nothing because there's no indicator of progress? GRUB default boot options: quiet splash nomodeset video=uvesafb:mode_option=1920x1200-24,mtrr=3,scroll=ywrap vt.handoff=7
View 9 Replies
View Related
Apr 29, 2011
Is it possible to install GRUB in the MBR of the only bootable disk in the system, but load configuration and images from another disk?Basically I want to install GRUB on /dev/sda, but menu and images will be under /dev/sdb2.Note: /dev/sdb is not bootable.
View 14 Replies
View Related
Jan 13, 2010
I thought I'd format my new 2tb drive to ext4, so did that, created a mount point, chown'd it, edited fstab, and now it gives me this:
Code:
neur0m4ncer@box:~$ sudo mount -a
mount: special device /dev/sde1 does not exist
[code]....
View 3 Replies
View Related
May 1, 2010
how to mount a spanned ntfs volume in ubuntu? I have a partition spanned across 5 drives. From the documentation it looks like it should be possible but I cant figure it out. I have ubuntu 9.4 but I will change to what ever version it will work on. The five 1500gb drive below are the ones I want to use. I tried to use ldminfo but I get the below error.
Quote:
veli@aaaa:~/Desktop/linux-ldm-0.0.8/test$ sudo ./ldminfo /dev/sdb
lseek to -698721449472 failed
ldm_validate_privheads(): Disk read failed.
lseek to -698722399232 failed
[Code].....
View 5 Replies
View Related
Jul 5, 2011
Recently I had installed "Storage Device Manager", since because my hard drive partitions were not mounted correctly during installation.
I own to hard disk "sda" 120 GB & "sdb" 1000 GB , since during boot time i had mounted the "sda" having 3 partitions of windows on locations "/partion_name 1, 2, & 3" at root, and "sdb" was not mounted during instalation.
After installation I had added "sdb" with my system and was working fine.
But "sba" was mounted at "/partion_name 1, 2, & 3", But I wanted to change this type of partion what "sdb" i.e it should prompt me for the password when I use to mount it, So I tried to change the mount type for the "sba" But wasn't able to do this beacause of error "Disk is been used by other process".
Now what i require is to mount "sda" partitions such as It may prompt for password when I try to mount and in "sdb1" having partions "sdb10" to be mounted automatically during boot time and the rest partions have to be prompted for password when I try to mount it.Is it possible..?
*Please suggest me the whole procedure in manual manner(Command line) for the same
*Also using "Storage Device Manager"
*if I remove "Storage Device Manager" in future thus it effct my system partitions
*If I mount the partition in "/media/partion_name" thus it will solve my problem.
Quote:
Details
UBUNTU 10.10
Harddisk:
sda : "sda1" mountpoint- "/win_xp"
[Code].....
View 5 Replies
View Related
May 15, 2010
I have an annoying problem with the Gnome disk utility. Whenever I want to mount a file system it is mounted as a removable disk in /media. For instance if I want to mount a raid array /dev/md0 to a mountpoint /music it is mounted as /media/music. That's not how I want it, I want it to be mounted to the desired mountpoint which is located directly on the root.
View 1 Replies
View Related
Feb 20, 2011
My computer set up is this; Pentium 4 Dell Dimension desktop with 2 hard drives. /hda = Linux and /hdb = Windows 7. It is set up to boot to /hda (master) and the Grub menu selection includes an entry to boot /hdb (slave) (Windows). Both disks are ATA. I just bought a 250 GB SATA drive and I cloned my Linux partitions onto this new disk. So far, it seems to be working and all my files are here.
The first problem is when I boot up I get a "Primary disk not found" message and the option to hit F1 to continue or F2 to go to setup. I hit F1 and it continues booting up without any further issues. The bigger problem is when I re-attach the Windows ATA drive; Depending on whether it is Master or not I run into one of two situations(when Master)The machine takes a loooooooong time to boot up, still comes to where I have to hit F1, yet I can boot into Windows or Linux. (when not Master)It comes up fairly quickly, I hit F1 but Windows cannot be found.
When Windows doesn't work and I still boot up, I can't find the other hard drive anywhere. #sudo fdisk -l only comes up with the SATA drive, not the Windows one. So there are 3 things I want that I am not sure how to get;Automatically boot to Grub without having to hit F1 Faster bootup through the bios Being able to boot to Windows or Linux without any problems. Am I missing something? Is this because of a mixed ATA and SATA? Is there something I need to fix in the BIOS? I'm not sure where to look!
View 2 Replies
View Related
Apr 9, 2011
I have a machine running Ubuntu 10.04. I have a VPS (virtual private server) also running Ubuntu Linux. The VPS has a dedicated IP.
I want to have a setup, so that the directories on the VPS are accessible on my HOME PC like a mounted drive.
That is I should be able to do things like edit files on the VPS and copy/move files from/to my home PC to the VPS, as if the VPS was mounted on my box.
View 2 Replies
View Related
Nov 26, 2010
We have recently added new HP raid controller into our server and configured 2 logical drives on it. First is for Oracle database, second has 1 partition with ext3 filesystem on it. We added an entry into /etc/fstab, so the second LD with the ext3 partition can be mounted on boot time. But the boot process crashes on mounting this filesystem with error message:
Mount failed
Device /dev/cciss/c0d1p1 does not exist.
and we are asked to log into rescue console. But when we log in and run mount �a command, the filesystem gets mounted, so it looks like fstab entry is correct, but the device does not exist. How is this possible?
Our root filesystem is on Adaptec raid controllers logical drive. The LD has 2 other partitions, that are mounted on boot time. Mounting these partitions on boot time works without trouble. Adaptec controller nor the HP arent reporting any errors.
How it is possible that on mount time the /dev entries for logical drives on HP raid controller do not exist, but for Adaptec raid controller they do exist? And how to repair this problem?
We are running on RHEL 4 x64, kernel 2.6.9-34.ELsmp x64
View 5 Replies
View Related
Mar 14, 2011
I have a music server running on Ubuntu10.04.
The mainboard is a Gigabyte GA-MA790FXT-UD5P [URL].
Problem #1: Approx. four out of five times my dvd-rw is not available to the system. If I wish to burn a cdrom, the computer has to be restarted three or four times before the dvd-rw is available. But then it always works without a flaw.
Problem #2: This morning after booting, the system started and displayed a message: "Disk sdf is not ready for mounting, press S to skip or M to fix the problem" I pressed M and edited /etc/fstab, then continued to start-up. Then I started Disk Utility. The harddisk sdf is clearly visible: it's a Samsung HD642JJ and according to three different Smart tests the disk is healthy. But the harddisk is completely absent in the rest of the system. The blkid command does not report sdf, and 'fdisk -l' does not print anything about sdf.
As far as I have been able to test the hardware is healthy. All connections are in good condition, there are no loose connectors. So after thinking about these problems I have a suspicion towards hald and/or the enumerator. I have attached the dmesg output.
View 7 Replies
View Related
Aug 11, 2010
I booted my laptop from the FC 13 Live CD.I'd like to mount the local disk while booted from the Live CD.In older versions of Linux, this used to be as simple as "mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/whatever".But, no longer Progress. When I do "fdisk -l /dev/sda", while booted from the FC13 Live CD, the /dev/sda2 partition shows up as "Linux LVM". My question: how can I mount the partition containing home directories from the "Linux LVM" partition?
View 1 Replies
View Related
Apr 23, 2011
I want to mount a 'super floppy' which is listed in the disk utility as /dev/sdb.
I am unsure of the sequence here. Should I first mount: mount /mnt/floppy ...or something similar And next edit the /etc/fstab file....or is this step not necessary.
Finally, this is vfat formatted. Should I try to reformat it in ext or leave it as is?
View 1 Replies
View Related
Jul 4, 2010
I've got a removeable disk which I want to mount on startup automatically at mountpoint "/backupsystem". If' it's not there I would like to have no error message. Actually after upgrading to 10.4 I get the message: Continue to wait; or press S to skip mounting or M for manual recovery.". But I don't wand this if the disk is not there that's OK for me. How would I configure fstab to achieve this?
View 2 Replies
View Related
Jun 13, 2010
My DVD drive start working bad recently in KDE 4.4.3 - openSUSE Forums , but this is another very annoying thing happening in my openSUSE box. I have several flash drives, from several sizes and all have the same problem: When I plug them, the drive simply takes a LOT of time mounting and showing the data, but really, a LOT, and meanwhile the flash light blinks the desktop environment its FREEZE, until it shows the mounted drive. Some output from a recently plug that takes again a lot of time:
Code:
[ 4685.082027] usb 1-6: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5
[ 4685.579461] usb 1-6: New USB device found, idVendor=0325, idProduct=ac02
[ 4685.579480] usb 1-6: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[code]...
View 2 Replies
View Related
Nov 16, 2010
I downloaded an raw SD card image that has two partitions. It caused some file system errors when I tried to dd it directly into an SD card. I am not sure if the card is defective or the image. Is there a way to examine this image without writing it to a physical card? Like trying to mount the partitions separately or checking the tables?
View 2 Replies
View Related
Feb 25, 2011
I am not sure if this is the right forum but it does not really fit anywhere else. I have updated from opensuse 11.3 to 11.4 RC1. After the update, few new things appear when I use df -ah
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
rootfs 11G 8.4G 1.2G 88% /
devtmpfs 996M 188K 996M 1% /dev
tmpfs 1002M 680K 1001M 1% /dev/shm
devpts 0 0 0 - /dev/pts
[Code]...
View 4 Replies
View Related
Mar 18, 2010
I'm running Kubuntu Karmic on my Dell Inspiron laptop - about 200 bug fixes behind because my only available internet is a cellular connection on a crappy wi-fi router - and last night, I suspended it, but it shut down instead. Not a problem, it does this fairly often, figure the RAM gets jostled or something.
But when I go to boot it up, it gets stuck at the pre-loading screen before getting garbled and dropping to the shell, where it says "mount: mounting /dev/disk/by-uuid/[insert hex code here] failed: invalid argument". Of course, mounting /root/sys, /root/dev and /root/proc fails, (directory does not exist) and it gives me the busybox initramfs prompt.
View 6 Replies
View Related
Jan 16, 2011
I'm still in 8.04, with a FULLY mature OS, and no problems. I like ANY LTS better, and I have a commercial-burned 10.10 (usually a better burn than a home-burn).So I'm tempted to load the 10.10, instead of cooking up a 10.04 disk...Anybody here run both? Which did you like better of the 2?
View 7 Replies
View Related
Apr 29, 2011
I just did a clean install of 11.04. Now when I try to boot the machine I get the following error: Quote:
error: no such device
error: no such disk
error: you need to load the kernel first
Then I am taken to the Grub menu. Selecting anything from the Grub menu brings this error back up. So now I'm stuck with a computer that won't work.?
View 9 Replies
View Related
Dec 18, 2010
Trying to install iso disk image of vers 10.10. does not seem to want to load from boot. used alcohol 120 for burn,which is usually very reliable.But install seems to stall early into load.
View 4 Replies
View Related
Dec 9, 2010
org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.
that is the error i am getting from the device manager. from konqueror i can see the usb drive but by clicking on it nothign happens
View 2 Replies
View Related
May 15, 2010
I have a problem in Ubuntu 10.04. The bug is well know which makes the hard disk head to park often (2-3 times per minute) that's dangerous for the drive in the long term and annoying for me (click-click-click).I found out the "ugly-fix" for old Ubuntu version which was :hdparm -B 254 /dev/sda instead of 128. It works. The problem is that it doesn't remains (when restart/standby/ac connection-disconnection).I found a script well known too :Code:1) make a file named "99-hdd-spin-fix.sh". The important thing is starting with "99".2) make sure the file contains the following 2 lines (fix it if you have PATA HDD):
#!/bin/sh
hdparm -B 255 /dev/sda
3) copy this file to 3 locations:
[code]....
View 4 Replies
View Related
Jul 7, 2010
I known the Driver Disk can be loaded by anaconda when specifying the 'dd=xx' parameter. But how should I do if I still want to use these drivers which are included in the Driver Disk in an up running Operating System?
I have not a real environment to test it, but looks like the driver modules in the Driver Disk won't be installed into the real installed system. Am I right? Are there some tools which can load Driver Disk in a up running Operating System?
View 1 Replies
View Related
Mar 19, 2010
I'm having installation issues with linux. I'm trying to set up a dual boot with vista and linux. I prepared my computer by backing up my files and partitioning my hard drive, leaving 20GB for linux. I downloaded Linux Mint 7, and booted from USB (using the universal USB installer from pendrivelinux.com). All good, entered into linux and installed by following the prompts (selecting use largest unallocated partition to point linux to the partition). At this stage the screen cleared to just leave me with the desktop background.
I patiently waited for it to reboot which never happened. So I waited for 20mins or so, then shut the computer down because I couldn't think of what else to do. When I restarted (without using the livecd/usb) it just went straight to vista. I did a bit of reading and found it might have been something to do with vista taking over grub, and some of the tutorials suggested downloading EasyBCD. So I did that, here's the summary:
Code:
There are a total of 2 entries listed in the Vista Bootloader.
Bootloader Timeout: 30 seconds.
Default OS: Linux Mint 7
Entry #1
Name: Microsoft Windows Vista
BCD ID: {current}
Drive: C:
Bootloader Path: Windowssystem32winload.exe
Windows Directory: Windows
Entry #2
Name: Linux Mint 7
BCD ID: {default}
Drive: C:
Bootloader Path: NST
st_grub.mbr
Code:
Windows Boot Manager
identifier {9dea862c-5cdd-4e70-acc1-f32b344d4795}
device partition=C:
description Windows Boot Manager
locale en-US
inherit {7ea2e1ac-2e61-4728-aaa3-896d9d0a9f0e}
default {bbf9569e-31e5-11df-a844-91f7867d7949}
resumeobject {3fb6bf64-700d-11db-8409-0016d303c867}
displayorder {3fb6bf63-700d-11db-8409-0016d303c867}
{bbf9569e-31e5-11df-a844-91f7867d7949}
toolsdisplayorder {b2721d73-1db4-4c62-bf78-c548a880142d}
timeout 30
Windows Boot Loader
identifier {3fb6bf63-700d-11db-8409-0016d303c867}
device partition=C:
path Windowssystem32winload.exe
description Microsoft Windows Vista
locale en-US
inherit {6efb52bf-1766-41db-a6b3-0ee5eff72bd7}
recoverysequence {572bcd55-ffa7-11d9-aae2-0007e994107d}
recoveryenabled Yes
osdevice partition=C:
systemroot Windows
resumeobject {3fb6bf64-700d-11db-8409-0016d303c867}
nx OptIn
Real-mode Boot Sector
identifier {bbf9569e-31e5-11df-a844-91f7867d7949}
device partition=C:
path NST
st_grub.mbr
description Linux Mint 7
Now when I turn my computer on, I get options for vista and linux. Vista works fine, but if I select Linux Mint 7 I get an error that reads "cannot load from harddisk, insert systemdisk and press any key".
View 5 Replies
View Related
Apr 26, 2009
A while back I decided to use CentOS as my main day to day operating system :) Previously I was mainly using Fedora (old Red Hat <9.x) and occasionally Debian / Debian based distros.Since I am running CentOS on a Dell M1530 laptop I am concerned by the Load Cycle issue that plagues many laptop hard disks due to aggressive default power management. For those of you who are not aware of the Load Cycle issue please refer to the following link from Ubuntu forums which documents it really well:URL...
In Fedora and various other distros I have successfully used Laptop Mode Tools URL... to help set the hard disk APM value meaning the hard disk would stop rapidly increasing the Load Cycle value when running on mains. The setting I choose to use was hdparm -B 254 /dev/sda when the laptop is running off of mains power and set in scripts supplied with the Laptop Mode Tools RPM which will run as a service.
The problem I am having with CentOS is I can't get Laptop Mode Tools to run as a service either from the RPMForge repo (old version) or by installing the latest Fedora version from Laptop Mode Tools site above. I am therefore having to manually set hdparm -B 254 /dev/sda when running which I occasionally forget An error is seen during boot but which changes the CentOS boot to verbose mode but I am unable to locate the error in any of the /var/log files so I can put it in here.Can anyone suggest a way of creating a script suitable for CentOS which will auto apply the above (or other) power saving value for when a laptop is running off of mains power?If anyone can also advise how I can confirm what the error is I can also forward it to the author of Laptop Mode Tools.
View 19 Replies
View Related
Apr 20, 2011
I was installing last night some applications , then i forgot to plugin my laptop so suddenly it turned off , anyways today i turned it on , while booting it gave me this error : "error where found when mounting the disk file /"so i press I to ignore , and it works , but now how can i fix this error?
View 1 Replies
View Related
Jan 16, 2011
I was trying to change the mounting point of a usb external drive from '/media/disk' to '/media/Movies'
Here is were the stupid part takes over... I right clicked on the desktop icon for the device and selected Properties. From there I selected the Volume tab and in there I changed the mounting point to '/media/Movies' It accepted it and said the changed would take place when I unmounted it and remounted it. However, when I did this it now says it cannot be mounted as it says mount_point contains invalid characters usually /
Unfortunately, now I cannot get back into the properties to remove my error.
View 4 Replies
View Related
Jan 7, 2011
Today, I was downloading some stuff from online. I left for a few minutes and came back to find that someone had hit my loose power cord, causing the computer to restart. When I completed the reboot (It always says "Insert system disk and press enter" after checking CD drives), and had it load OpenSuSE 11.3 Failsafe (Regular won't work for me), it loaded into Teal (BASH, Command Prompt, Kommand, whatever you want to call it). At first, I thought maybe I screwed up and told it to load into that. But, I tried again, and it did the same. I tried using Non-Failsafe, and got the same results. I am able to edit, add, or remove programs from the Linux partition, though.
View 3 Replies
View Related
Feb 7, 2011
I had this corrupted external hdd and so I formatted the main partition on it on windows but messed up in the formatting and ended up having to format the entire thing. I got some weird message about it not being initialized (no not mounted) so I was in compmgmt.msc in windows and right clicked it in device manager and it asked for master boot or GUID I selected the latter and formatted. Worked fine and all for a bit but now it doesn't show up as a drive. I noticed when using compmgmt.msc it showed up that it had installed driver software and was being recognized but in the partition editing area there was nothing on this drive, reinstalling driver software doesn't seem to help. Also GParted wont load up when I have it plugged in and Disk Utility doesn't show it. I am requesting help to fix this problem within Ubuntu 10.10 somehow so I can use it properly.
View 9 Replies
View Related
