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Disk drive for /home is not ready or not present
Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS installed on my lap. It has worked fine before but now when I open the machine it goes through the normal process of starting and stopping the different and then it ends with this :...
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How to unmount an internal disk
I have two hard disks installed in my computer. I played with the "Mounting options" for my second hard disk from the "Disk" tool.
Since that I can't access my second hard disk and every time I ...
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Win usb giving Exit code 256?
Installation failed !
Exit code: 256
Log:
Formatting device...
Wait 3 seconds for block device nodes to populate...
mkfs.fat: warning - lowercase labels might not work properly with DOS or Windows
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Can't mount Windows partition from Ubuntu
And meanwhile Windows won't start. It says I should use a disk image to fix it or something.
The error I get from Ubuntu when trying to open the Windows partition:
ntfs_attr_pread_i: ntfs_pread ...
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Help understanding partitions on Ubuntu
After having issues installing Ubuntu on a computer i believe that i have created several partitions rather than simply one Ubuntu OS. What I need is for there to be only one instance of Ubuntu on ...
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working 14.04 ubuntu to error: no such device: grub rescue>
I'm a father and I was trying to get one more entry on gnucash after my youngest woke up. I had gnucash, keypass, chrome and LibreOffice calc up when my son found the power button.... Nooooooo! :D
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How to fsck hard drive while hard drive is unmounted, using bootable USB stick?
I have a hard drive with only Ubuntu 14.04 installed, that I want to check. However, the tutorial I read says that the hard drive has to be unmounted before I can check it.
Apparently, I can run the ...
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Mount point [UUID] does not exist (Ubuntu 14.04 LTS)
I have an Ubuntu desktop with 1xSSD with the system installed (/dev/sda) and 4xHDDs running in softraid (/dev/md0, sd[b-e]).
Currently whenever I power on my PC, Ubuntu initially fails to boot, saying:...
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After update, cannot mount hard drive nor boot
I have a huge problem.
I had Ubuntu 14.04 (64-bit), and Windows 7 installed. Dell machine. I have one hard drive with partitions sda 1-3 and 5-7. The data on them are important (but not urgent).
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I am getting mount error while booting UBUNTU 14.04
An error occurred while mounting /mnt/C490822890822152
Here is what I get when i choose to boot Ubuntu 14.04 in grub 2.
I can still boot Ubuntu by pressing S key, and can access to root terminal by ...
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Partition disappears after modifying fstab
So, I'm trying to auto-mount a Windows partition at startup. This is the line that I added in the fstab file:
UUID=4462435862434E3C /boot ntfs defaults,user 0 2
I read this tutorial ...
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Automatic Ubuntu server installation not working - error with booting from usb drive
I am working on automatic Ubuntu installation iso file. I followed the guide shown here: https://pricklytech.wordpress.com/2013/04/21/ubuntu-server-unattended-installation-custom-cd/
The iso file ...
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Mount failed. A maintenance shell will now be started
I am dualbooting ubuntu and Windows 7.
Installation went well, but when I try to boot ubuntu, the laptop goes black for ever, when I try to wake it up, the file mounting problem appears, asking me to ...
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the disk drive for /dev/mapper/cryptswap1 is not ready yet or not present error on startup [duplicate]
On start-up I get the error:
The disk drive for /dev/mapper/cryptswap1 is not ready yet or not present
but then Ubuntu starts normally.
I recently installed Ubuntu 14.04 in dual boot with Windows 7 ...
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Stuck booting a Ubuntu 14.04 system (not from a LiveCD but from sdb1) via PXE/NFS
I have two disks (sda and sdb). I have a running Ubuntu 14.04 in sda1. I've cloned sda1 in sdb1 with Clonezilla, so in sdb1 I have too another Ubuntu system, which I want to boot only through the LAN. ...
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