BOOT ERROR: Mounting on /root failed: Invalid argument
Hi
Evrytime i try to boot my system i get an error message: mount: mounting /dev/disk/by-uuid/a3c31122-6794-4fa6-a039-91d49dadfa8a on /root failed: Invalid argument mount: mounting /sys on /root/sys failed: No such file or directory mount: mounting /dev on /root/dev failed: No such file or directory mount: mounting /sys on /root/sys failed: No such file or directory mount: mounting /proc on /root/proc failed: No such file or directory Target filesystem doesn't have /sbin/init. No init found. Try passing init = bootarg. BusyBox v1.13.3 (Ubuntu 1:1.13.3-1ubuntu7) built-in shell (ash) Enter 'help' for a lit of built in commands. (initramfs) I tried to boot using live disk but i can't mount the hdd. Please help. Paul |
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the uuid is a universal identifier for your hard drive, the one you installed your linux on. mount cannot find it. the uuid is wrong. it's hard to say more about this now, but i guess it's safe to say that something went wrong with your install. Quote:
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Thanks for the reply Ondoho.
It seems I was a bit unclear. What i meant to say was i tried booting fron a Live CD but i cant seem to mount the boot partition or any other partitions on my device. Its write protected. i was hoping to fix grub2 but i get an "access denied" response. What do i do? |
I'd unmount the hdd partition of interest, run fsck on it, then try remounting it. If that didn't allow you to mount the partition writably, and I was feeling brave (or is that foolish?) I'd try to forcibly mount it rw.
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I ran fsck and this is the output
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root@ubuntu:~# fsck /dev/sda1 |
In that case, I'd do the read-only check first. If that looks good, I'd try the remount option.
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mount -o remount,rw /dev/sda1 <mountpoint> |
okay. how do i specify the filesystem type?
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root@ubuntu:~# fsck -n /dev/sda1 |
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man fsck |
Still not working.
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root@ubuntu:~# fsck.ext4 /dev/sdb1 |
the problem you are experiencing, is this on an installed version of ubuntu or while booting a live medium?
also, your filesystem magically moved from sda1 to sdb1, how's that happened? and, i'll say it again, a live medium should just boot up to a graphical desktop, no matter what state your hard drive is in. somehow i have the suspicion that you haven't even installed ubuntu yet and are trying to run a fsck on the live medium, which is by all rights read only. |
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I had installed ubuntu 14.04 lts a while back. whn i tried to boot yesterday i got the error. I then booted from a LiveCD so i can search online for a solution. After reading a few threads i learnt the solution would be to reinstall Grub2. Now in order to reinstall grub2 i had to mount the boot partition. Code:
root@ubuntu:~# mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt |
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fsck -n -t ext4 /dev/sdb1 |
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