Dotan Cohen wrote:
> I have a two-week old Kubuntu 8.04 installation that is now failing to
> boot. When I start the computer, I get the Kubuntu graphic, then it
> drops to tty1 and I get a text login. When I log in with my username
> and password I get a message that the system is read only.
There must be a reason why the system is read only, probably there are
errors on the / partition. Run e2fsck for that partition.
If that doesn't bring up an error I would reboot and remove the "quiet
splash" options from the kernel command line in the grub menu. Then you
might see the reason why / is mounted read only.
> Other than
> / no partitions are mounted. As /home is it's own partition I cannot
> access my files there.
I think /home can't be mounted because / is read only.
> I then logged in as root (I do have a root
> password) and tried running init 5 however that did nothing.
Why did you expect that "init 5" might help in any way? Runlevel 5 is in
no way special for Ubuntu. All runlevels 2 to 5 are the same unless you
have your own special setup for runlevel 5. The standard runlevel for
Ubuntu is 2.
Nils
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02-08-2009, 10:49 AM
Dotan Cohen
Ubuntu not booting: system _was_ working
> There must be a reason why the system is read only, probably there are
> errors on the / partition. Run e2fsck for that partition.
>
> If that doesn't bring up an error I would reboot and remove the "quiet
> splash" options from the kernel command line in the grub menu. Then you
> might see the reason why / is mounted read only.
>
Thanks, I will do that this evening.
>> Other than
>> / no partitions are mounted. As /home is it's own partition I cannot
>> access my files there.
>
> I think /home can't be mounted because / is read only.
>
That sounds reasonable.
>> I then logged in as root (I do have a root
>> password) and tried running init 5 however that did nothing.
>
> Why did you expect that "init 5" might help in any way? Runlevel 5 is in
> no way special for Ubuntu. All runlevels 2 to 5 are the same unless you
> have your own special setup for runlevel 5. The standard runlevel for
> Ubuntu is 2.
>
Probably something that I learned in my Fedora days that is not
relevant to *buntu.
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02-08-2009, 02:33 PM
Florian Diesch
Ubuntu not booting: system _was_ working
Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a two-week old Kubuntu 8.04 installation that is now failing to
> boot. When I start the computer, I get the Kubuntu graphic, then it
> drops to tty1 and I get a text login. When I log in with my username
> and password I get a message that the system is read only. Other than
> / no partitions are mounted. As /home is it's own partition I cannot
> access my files there. I then logged in as root (I do have a root
> password) and tried running init 5 however that did nothing.
>
> What must I do to diagnose this? Thanks.
Have a look at the output of dmesg
Florian
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