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   From: peter@invalid.com   
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   Subject: Re: Bootup stops at fsck?   
   Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 14:51:34 +0000   
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   On Sat, 24 Feb 2007 13:02:44 +0100, De Kameel    
   wrote:   
      
   >peter@invalid.com wrote:   
   >> As of this morning my (mostly) beautifully behaved Edgy won't boot in   
   >> either full or recovery mode. Messages on screen say fsck root file   
   >> system check ok, then checking file system - and that's where it   
   >> freezes.   
   >   
   >I vaguely remember I had that problem after I had disconnected a    
   >second/third harddisk in my system: the bootup apparently kept searching    
   >for the missing harddisk. Solved by putting back in the harddisk.   
   >   
   >Could something like this be the cause of your problem?   
   >   
   >de Kameel   
      
   Thanks for the suggestion - you were spot on. I have a 250Gb 2nd drive   
   which I had FAT32 formatted so it could be written by both windows and   
   linux.   
      
   For some reason I can't fathom, writing to it on a previous linux boot   
   had screwed the file system. I discovered this because on booting into   
   windows, the drive had vanished.   
      
   I recovered it in windows, and Ubuntu then booted.   
      
   That's definitely one up for windows xp, though - Ubuntu wouldn't give   
   me any access to the machine at all, let alone let me recover the   
   drive. Some food for thought there...   
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