Where can I share this trouble shooting tips
Zainul Franciscus
zainul.franciscus at gmail.com
Sun Nov 1 09:58:35 UTC 2009
Hi,
I just upgraded to Ubuntu Karmic Koala. When I boot my ubuntu it says:
- boot args (cat /proc/cmdline)
- Check root delays (Did the system wait long enough ?)
- Check root : (did the system wait for the right device?)
- missing modules ( cat /proc/module; /ls/dev)
- Alert /dev/disk/by-uuid=[XXX] does not exist. Dropping to a shell.
I manage to solve this problem. I feel it will be beneficial for the
entire community if I posted a documentation on how to solve this
problem. I would really like to add the trouble shooting tips to an
existing article, but I can't find any. Does anyone has a suggestion on
the best way to post my trouble shooting tips.
Thank you.
Regards,
Zainul Franciscus
Peter Lenny wrote:
> Thanks all for your help and clarifications.
>
> I will now take a deep breath and put it all behind me.
>
> And when I have Ubuntu up and running, I'll let you know.
>
> []s - Peter
>
> At 02:53 31/10/2009, ApOgEE wrote:
>> Dear Peter,
>>
>> From your answers, I can confirm that the Ubuntu CD did not cause
>> your PC crashed. It have never do anything yet to your PC because you
>> haven't instructed it.
>>
>> If you are still interested in installing Ubuntu dual boot on your
>> PC, Please view these articles:
>> 1. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCD
>>
>>
>> 2. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WindowsDualBoot
>> - the detail instruction on how to do the dual boot installation
>> 3.
>> http://screencasts.ubuntu.com/Installing_Ubuntu_with_Windows_Dual-Boot
>> - the screencast on how to do the installation it in details.
>> Preserving your Windows partition.
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 12:44 AM, Peter Lenny <lenny at alternex.com.br
>> <mailto:lenny at alternex.com.br>> wrote:
>>
>> Friends,
>>
>> I am impressed and grateful at your responses.
>>
>> I'm replying to all three together so that you do not duplicate
>> efforts.
>>
>> The questions, in chronological order, seem to be:
>>
>>
>> 1. Did you burn Ubuntu LiveCD?
>>
>> I downloaded "ubuntu-9.04-desktop-i386.iso" (715.732 kb) from
>> "unicamp.br <http://unicamp.br>", which I burned to CD.
>>
>> I have just noticed that it appears on my desktop as a compacted
>> file. I don't remember unpacking it.
>>
>> When I now do so, it breaks out into a series of files and
>> folders (folders are .disk, casper, dists, install, isolinux,
>> pics, pool, preseed; and the files autorun.inf, md5sum.txt,
>> README.diskdefines, ubuntu and wubi.exe). Same happens with 9.10,
>> which I've just downloaded.
>>
>> Should it be unpacked first and then burned? I seem to be getting
>> more confused.
>>
>>
>> No, you don't have to unpack the ISO file before burning it. The ISO
>> file is a CD image. Just burn the image as explained in
>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BurningIsoHowto
>>
>>
>>
>> 2. What software did you use to burn the image to a CD?
>>
>> I used InfraRecorder, as recommended on
>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BurningIsoHowto
>>
>> 3. What happened between the CD burn process finishing and the
>> computer rebooting? Did you eject and re-insert the CD into the
>> drive, or did it reboot while the CD burning software was still
>> running? It's important that you provide as much detail as
>> possible about what happened in this step.
>>
>> As I remember, I did nothing. I simply burned the CD, turned
>> around and it was rebooting. I don't remember givng any command
>> to the CD player. It's always possible that, if InfraRecorder
>> ends the burn sequence by ejecting the CD, I may have touched it
>> with my knee or something, but I don't remember doing so.
>>
>> 4. When you booted up, did you choose try ubuntu without any
>> chages or install ubuntu?
>>
>> I didn't even get that far: I aborted the reboot as soon as I
>> realized it was happening. I didn't want to install until I had
>> re-read the manual.
>>
>> 5. have you booted the LiveCD until this menu?
>>
>> No chance: see 4.
>>
>>
>> It seems like you have never installed ubuntu on your PC and the
>> Ubuntu CD have done nothing yet to your PC. It is not that Ubuntu
>> caused the crash. As per Phill Bull said, It could have just been an
>> unfortunate coincidence that you were burning an Ubuntu CD at the time.
>>
>>
>>
>> 6. What happens when you start your computer now?
>>
>> XP has been restored by my friendly neighborhood IT store. That
>> is, when I first removed the CD and tried to reboot, I got a
>> message that XP could not boot because a certain file (don't
>> remember which) was missing. The techies said that, depending on
>> which and how many files were missing, they might be able to
>> restore XP intact. That's more or less the situation now, except
>> that XP no longer shuts down the machine automatically: just ends
>> with a screen saying it is now safe for me to turn off.
>>
>> Hope the answer's in there somewhere.
>>
>> []s - Peter
>>
>>
>> At 21:13 29/10/2009, you wrote:
>>
>> Hi Peter,
>>
>> Thanks for getting in touch.
>>
>> On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 13:26 -0200, Peter Lenny wrote:
>> > 1. I downloaded Ubuntu 9.04 (jaunty jackalope) and burned
>> the image to
>> > a CD.
>>
>> What software did you use to burn the image to a CD?
>>
>>
>> InfraRecorder, as recommended on
>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BurningIsoHowto
>>
>>
>> > 2. Immediately the CD-burn program finished, the computed just
>> > rebooted and (what I assume to be) an install process started.
>>
>> What happened between the CD burn process finishing and the
>> computer
>> rebooting? Did you eject and re-insert the CD into the drive,
>> or did it
>> reboot while the CD burning software was still running? It's
>> important
>> that you provide as much detail as possible about what
>> happened in this
>> step.
>>
>>
>> As I remember, I had done nothing. I simply burned the CD, turned
>> around and it was rebooting. I don't think I consciously
>> reinserted the CD. It's pssible that, if InfraRecorder ends the
>> burn sequence by ejecting the CD, I may have touched it with my
>> knee or something, but I don't think I did anything in terms of
>> computer commands.
>>
>>
>> When booting from a CD, Ubuntu will load a "Live CD"
>> environment, which
>> lets you try Ubuntu without installing it. You could have
>> been seeing
>> this rather than an installer.
>>
>> > 3. In panic, I shut down the PC, then removed the CD. On
>> rebooting,
>> > Windows XP could not initialize, and I had to resort to an IT
>> > professional to restore the system.
>>
>> The install process can't begin unless you explicitly start
>> it yourself,
>> and you will be asked to confirm that you want to install
>> Ubuntu before
>> any changes are made to your hard disk. If you didn't start
>> the install
>> process yourself, then Ubuntu shouldn't have made any changes
>> to your
>> computer whatsoever.
>>
>> If I understand the steps you performed, then I don't think
>> that Ubuntu
>> caused the crash. It could have just been an unfortunate
>> coincidence
>> that you were burning an Ubuntu CD at the time.
>>
>> > So my question is: Did I unwittingly abort a simple,
>> legitimate,
>> > automatic install process that would have preserved my
>> existing XP
>> > setup on C:, installed Ubuntu wherever I subsequently
>> instructed it
>> > to, and set up Grub for dual boot, or did I interrupt a
>> potentially
>> > disastrous overwrite of my existing XP installation on C:?
>>
>> It depends on which installation CD you're using, but starting an
>> automatic installation process isn't trivial. It's most
>> likely that you
>> were just starting the Live CD, which doesn't make any
>> changes to your
>> computer unless you ask it to. Still, it's a weird problem,
>> and I'd like
>> to get to the bottom of it.
>>
>>
>> Oops! So would I, but I don't seem to be helping much. I mean, I
>> myself find it hard to explain. I really would like to install
>> Ubuntu (I have used Kurimin and Mandriva), but can't find any
>> local help. Workarounds that involve disconnecting one HD then
>> seem tricky to bring round to a Grub dual boot.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Phil
>>
>> --
>> Phil Bull
>> https://launchpad.net/people/philbull
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Best Wishes,
>>
>> ApOgEE a.k.a JeRuNgKuN
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