Re: Another problem on another machine - not booting

boot a live cd
sudo fdisk -l
sudo blkid /dev/sd*

report results

here is mine:

carl@dc10:~/temp$ sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units =3D cylinders of 16065 * 512 =3D 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00034398

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1       29165   234259456   83  Linux
/dev/sda2           29165       30402     9936897    5  Extended
/dev/sda5           29165       30402     9936896   82  Linux swap / Solaris

carl@dc10:~/temp$ sudo blkid /dev/sd*
/dev/sda1: UUID=3D"a6ee2b42-c0ee-44e0-8b2a-5c49e80c5ef4" TYPE=3D"ext4"
/dev/sda5: UUID=3D"99f60337-cae8-45cf-8e2b-b2093739b859" TYPE=3D"swap"

On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 12:42 AM, James Velguth
<[email protected]> wrote:
> My summer has been very busy so sorry this has taken so long. =A0The
> message can be found under
>
> =A0 http://imagebin.org/168051
>
> thanks again for anybody who can solve this issue.
>
>
> On 6/11/2011 7:30 AM, Carl Karsten wrote:
>> Take a picture of the screen, post it to
>> http://imagebin.org/?page=3Dadd
>>
>> and hopfully you hae a 2nd box you can download/burn a live cd
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 12:31 AM, Robert Smith
>> <[email protected]> =A0wrote:
>>> --- On Sat, 6/11/11, James Velguth<[email protected]> =A0wrote:
>>>
>>> From: James Velguth<[email protected]>
>>> Subject: [LUNI] Another problem on another machine
>>> To: "Linux Users Of Northern Illinois - Technical Discussion"<luni@luni=
.org>
>>> Date: Saturday, June 11, 2011, 1:16 AM
>>>
>>> My operating system has quit working. =A0I was running Ubuntu 9.10 and
>>> left it running while I went out. =A0When I returned it didn't work. =
=A0When
>>> I boot I get messages that it can't find /dev, /sys, /proc on root and
>>> /sbin/init not found. It also says try parsing init=3Dbootarg but I have
>>> not idea how to do this. =A0I know this is rather vague description but=
 I
>>> am hoping someone has seen this and know what to do.
>>>
>>> Many thanks in advance to anybody who can give me an idea how to get
>>> this working again.
>>>
>>> Jim
>>> --
>>>
>>> Have you tried booting up on a Live CD and mounting your drive to have =
a look see? That would be my first step.
>>>
>>> Rob
>>>
>>> --
>>> Linux Users Of Northern Illinois (Chicago) - Technical Discussion
>>> http://luni.org/mailman/listinfo/luni
>>>
>>
>>
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>



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