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serious error while trying to mount partition xxx ignore skip mounting manual recovery
Yesterday I upgraded from Natty to Oneiric and I got a "Serious error while trying to mount partition /media/xxx. It is an NTFS partition. I chose Skip, I checked the partition with disk utility while ...
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I get a "serious errors while checking the disk drives for /boot" error while booting
I have just set up my new system by creating three partitions on a whole hard disk (/boot, /home, swap and /). I saw this article and now I am getting those errors and the system provide me with some ...
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Switch from encrypted partition to unencrypted (Error: cryptsetup: evms_activate is not available)
I initially installed Ubuntu 11.04 with an encrypted file system (from the alternate install CD: Guided Partitioning, LVM encrypted). Now I wanted to change this setup to have my root file system on ...
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How to disable mounting of external drive at boot? [duplicate]
Okay so I'm not exactly sure how it happened, but recently Ubuntu has been trying to mount an external hard drive that I usually have plugged in during boot. A message comes up during boot asking me ...
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What should I do when the system says it cannot find /
I was on my computer and running updates and something about firefox kicked me to a text screen from which I was forced to do a hardware reboot. On reboot, plymouth should low graphics mode and ...
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Using the fsc mount option with nfsroot kernel parameter to allow FS-cache
I'm PXE-booting a Ubuntu 10.10 system, where I specify the kernel parameters as follows:
append root=/dev/nfs initrd=ubuntu-boot/initrd.img-2.6.35-24-generic
nfsroot=11.22.33.44:/data/nfsroot,fsc ip=...
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How to mount Windows partition on boot?
I'd like a GUI method to set my Windows partition to mount on boot, using the same options as when it mounts by me opening it in nautilus.
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How to create a s3ql file system and mount it automatically on boot?
I've been experimenting with s3ql on Ubuntu 10.04, using it to mount Amazon S3 buckets. However, I'd really like it to mount them automatically. Does anyone know how to do that?
Solution:
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Mount an external drive at boot time only if it is plugged in
I've got an entry for an external harddrive in my fstab:
UUID="680C0FE30C0FAAE0" /jgdata ntfs noatime,rw
But sometimes this drive isn't plugged in at boot time. This leaves me half way ...
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mount error during boot up
I get the following error during boot up. But this error doesn't get written to boot.log, as it happens in early boot stages.
mount: mounts none on /dev/pts failed: Device or resource busy
I found ...
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