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#1 2013-05-11 03:49:48

mcduling
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Registered: 2011-12-16
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Can't boot up at all

I have been at sea for a month and first opportunity I got I did a sudo packman -Syu. All went well. But now when I try a d boot up I get a message: systemd-fsck (180): dev/sda1 was not cleanly unmounted, check forced. It goes on to say 21% no -continuous. The screen is frozen at this point so I can't access the terminal. All I can do is to hold the on off switch to kill. Any ideas on a way forward? I have limited connectivity on my ship and am accessing the Internet via my iPhone.

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#2 2013-05-11 03:56:21

WonderWoofy
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From: Los Gatos, CA
Registered: 2012-05-19
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Re: Can't boot up at all

The only thing I can think of from what you have told is to use the live media to try to fsck it manually and fix anything from there.

There is the chance that you might be able to stop it in the initramfs using break=premount and fsck it manually from the provded /bin/ash.

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#3 2013-05-13 09:23:05

mcduling
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Registered: 2011-12-16
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Re: Can't boot up at all

Is there a way I can boot up without using my live disc?

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#4 2013-05-13 11:37:40

Trilby
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Registered: 2011-11-29
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Re: Can't boot up at all

WonderWoofy wrote:

There is the chance that you might be able to stop it in the initramfs using break=premount and fsck it manually from the provded /bin/ash.


"UNIX is simple and coherent..." - Dennis Ritchie, "GNU's Not UNIX" -  Richard Stallman

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#5 2013-05-13 13:36:33

ubunchu
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Registered: 2012-05-01
Posts: 181

Re: Can't boot up at all

If you're using grub, if possible, remove the "quiet" option from grub.cfg, so that you can get more output about the problem.
(not long ago, for me, booting was 5 minutes because of a few devices which had incorrect mount options in fstab, try waiting for it to "finish" if it actually does)


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