trouble booting Ubuntu

[Rob Whyte]

    I have not been following this thread but I would use live media to
mount and repair it that way.

Are you familiar iwth how to mount a partition and bind proc dev sys etc
to repair grub or run fsck on unmounted file systems?


Cheers



On 05/03/17 16:01, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> My guess is, it wants you to key in root password so you can then run
> e2fsck and repair the system.  What ubuntu accessibility is like when
> this happens I do not know.
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> On Sat, 4 Mar 2017, Glenn At Home wrote:
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>> Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2017 13:29:50
>> From: Glenn At Home <GErvin at cableone.net>
>> To: Ubuntu-accessibility at lists.ubuntu.com
>> Subject: trouble booting Ubuntu
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>> Hi,
>> I have Ubuntu in an external disk drive, I took the HD from my laptop
>> and put in a larger drive, and for setting things up, I was able to
>> boot to my old HD in the external drive via cable, and use the old
>> install of Ubuntu.
>> But the cord got unplugged during boot up and now it looks like a DOS
>> terminal window, I cannot read the stuff on the screen, but I'm
>> guessing that the prompt at the cursor reads boot:
>> My question is,
>> How does one get a failed Ubuntu to boot up in such a situation?
>> Is it working at that prompt, and will it eventually boot up?
>> I'm pretty sure there's no grub window, but there should be, but if
>> there is, how many arrow downs is it on the GRUB menu to repair it?
>> Thanks.
>>
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>> Lenny/Glenn/N0YJV
>> "Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on
>> outward circumstances."
>> Benjamin Franklin
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