Eeebuntu Won't boot

[ckeeler90]

Hi,

I have an eeepc 901 ssd of 20gb and eeebuntu installed as OS

The OS had been porking perfectly, but one morning it refused to boot up. It went through the normal boot up procedures, but the screen went blank and eeebuntu did not start. It kept the boot up information on the screen, but nothing else.

Thanks for the help.

[Kieren]

Is there an error message shown? What are the last few messages you get when the boot up stops?

[ckeeler90]

hey, thanks here is what I get:

Boot from (hd0,0) ext 3 d0981884-4296-418d-af48-ef11904f3a8d
Starting up...
Loading, Please wait...
19+0 records in
19+0 records out
kinit: name_to_dev_t (/dev/disk/by-uuid/c103ce0b9-9768-4444-9825-19bf061f580a) = dev (8,5)
kinit: trying to resume from /dev/disk//by-uuid/c103ce0b9-9768-4444-9825-19bf051f580a
kinit: no resume image, doing normal boot...
mount: mounting /dev/disk/by-uuid/d0981884-4296-418d-af48-ef11904f3a8d on /root failed: Invalid argument
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 ro directory
Target filesystem doesn't have /sbin/init.
No init file found. Try passing init= bootarg

Busybox v1.10.2 (Ubuntu 1:1.10.2-1ubuntu7) built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built in commands.

(initramfs) ( 11.010012) sd 2:0:0:0: (sdc) Assuming drive cache: write through ( 11.012390) sd 2:0:0:0: (sdc) Assuming drive cache: write through



Hopefully you can make something of this!!

[Kieren]

Looks like boot up can't find your file system. Not sure how to go about fixing it though but maybe someone else does?

[rokytnji]

Not that Imight be a lot of help either. But I own a EEE 900. I don't run Ubuntu on it. I run AntiX on it.
1. Do you have any external flash drives plugged in when you boot up. If so disconnect them.
Hit escape before grub comes up so you can make sure your booting up the right SSD Drive also.

If none of those checks don't help it. When you drop down to

Busybox v1.10.2 (Ubuntu 1:1.10.2-1ubuntu7) built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built in commands.

when it fails to boot. Type in

sudo fdisk -l

that is a lower case L after fdisk

type in password and hit enter. Post readout in next post.

then type in

gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst

Hit enter. And post that readout also in next post.
That way other members here can see why your grub menu is failing to identify root partition on your SSD Drive.

Like I said. I might not be of great help. But if you can provide above info. It might be easier to see what went wrong. Also. Is your 901 the 4gig SSD with the seperate 16 gig SSD for /home or is it the single 20 gig SSD.

[rokytnji]

Also . If you still have the live USB of EEEbuntu available. You can grab /boot/grub/menu.lst using nautilus file manager after accessing internal drive file system. fdisk -l can also be grabbed while running EEEbuntu from live USB also.

[waterhead]

then type in

gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst

If it isn't booting the desktop, I don't think that gedit will work. You would need to use a terminal editor, and I believe that nano is the default one for Ubuntu.

sudo nano /boot/grub/menu.lst

I don't use nano, so I have a lot of trouble navigating a document with it. Maybe someone who uses it can chime in.

How long has Eeebuntu been installed on this? A solid state drive has a limited number of read/writes. If you are using a journaling filesystem (ext3), and have a swap partition too, it may have worn out the SSD.