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   From: Joe LaVigne    
   Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.ubuntu   
   Subject: Re: Bootup stops at fsck?   
   Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 18:20:05 +0000 (UTC)   
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   On Sat, 24 Feb 2007 14:51:34 +0000, peter wrote:   
      
   > 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...   
      
   You should have been able to do the same thing by booting to the Ubuntu   
   live cd...   
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