Ubuntu

[src2206]

Hi

I have Ubuntu 6.0.1 installed
Recently I changed some of my partitions and now Ubuntu Gnome is not starting.

I can access Ubuntu partition through FC5, so howcan this be solved?

please help.

thank you

[devils casper]

what did you change? did you create new partition or changed partition size only?










casper

[bryansmith]

Can you boot into it or is it not booting at all?

Bryan

[src2206]

Ok
I chnaged a lot with partitions actually. I deleted some partitions and merged the free space with other existing partitions.

Now regarding boot, I think I can boot. After that it is not giving me Gnome, instead it is listing the old partitions as missing and ultimately giving me the # prompt.

What I beleive that I need to change the lines in the file equivalent to FC's fstab.

Thank you.

[devils casper]

yes ! you have to change the reference of / root and swap space in fstab file.








casper

[bryansmith]

Did you change any of the partitions that Ubuntu is housed on?

Bryan

[src2206]

Yes I have deleted one partition of the Ubuntu HDD and merged that with C:\ - I hope this is what you want to know bryan.

thank you casper for your reply
So what should I do now?

[devils casper]

Yes I have deleted one partition of the Ubuntu HDD and merged that with C:\ -

it means partition numbers of all partitions are changed now.
check the output of fdisk -l command and change the reference of / partition in /etc/fstab file of Ubuntu.
in case, you couldn't solve it, post the output of fdisk -l and contents of /etc/fstab file.






casper

[src2206]

Hi friends

I still can not boot in my Ubuntu.

The error is as follows :

mount: Mounting /dev/hda6 on /root failed: no such device
mount: Mounting /root/dev on /dev/.static /dev failed: no such file or directory
mount: Mounting /sys on /root/sys failed: no such file or directory
mount: Mounting /proc on /root/proc failed: no such file or directory
Target filesystem does not have /sbin/init

And it is giving me a # prompt.

I took the result of the fdisk -l command and the result is as follows:

Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 1950 15663343+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2 1951 4865 23414737+ 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 1951 2348 3196903+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda6 2349 4674 18683563+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda7 4675 4865 1534176 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Disk /dev/hdb: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 * 1 9729 78148161 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hdb5 * 1 2618 21029022 83 Linux
/dev/hdb6 2619 4148 12289693+ b W95 FAT32
/dev/hdb7 4149 5423 10241406 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hdb8 5424 9561 33238453+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hdb9 9562 9729 1349428+ 7 HPFS/NTFS

Please help.

Thank you.

[devils casper]

GRUB is looking in /dev/hda6 partition but fdisk is shwoing that its in NTFS format. correct the entry in grub.conf file and point it to Linux partition.
you hace two Linux partitions, hda5 and hdb5. which partition holds Ubuntu?
well ! post the contents of grub.conf file.






Casper