[plug] error trying to boot into ubuntu 10

[Lucas van Staden]

Hi,

May just be grabbing at straws, but...

Have you checked your system bios, and checked the mode of your 
pata/sata onboard devices?

In the past, I could not boot into linux unless sata device was in a 
specific mode.
Cannot help you right now on what mode was the right one, or what worked 
for me (been a while back, and not with that pc now), but I do recall it 
looked like the hard drive was faulty when the mode was 'wrong'....


-Lucas

On 26/03/11 13:51, Arie Hol wrote:
> Hello David,
>
> 1 :
>
> If you suspect a hardware fault - you could try downloading a diagnostic
> utility from the hard drive manufacturer's website.
>
> This usually involves making a boot disk - which allows the utility to
> work without the influence of an operating system or a filesystem.
>
> These utilities generally work at a lower level than which an operating
> system would allow and thus would ignore any filesystems.
>
> 2 :
>
> I notice that in an error message you have quoted it stated that the
> "superblock was corrupt", I would be inclined to think this was more
> likely to be a software or data error rather than hardware.
>
> I would think that a hardware error would more than likely return an
> error reporting that the file location was "unreadable" - but this is
> only my opinion.
>
>
> On 26 Mar 2011 at 12:24, dbuddrige at bigpond.com wrote:
>
>> hi all,
>>
>> I have recently installed a ubuntu 10 system [dual-booted with windows],
>> with the main root partition being ext3.  However, on rebooting the
>> system, after the grub menu displayed, and I selected the option to boot
>> into linux, it displayed an error and then went into a highly limited
>> session.  Unfortunately, from this state I was unable to gain any
>> access to any of the hard-drives, so I rebooted off the ubuntu10 cd and
>> then tried to mount the root hard-drive from there.
>>
>> On doing so, I got a message saying:
>>
>> "Error mounting; mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on
>> /dev/sda5, missing codepage or helper program, or other error.  In some
>> cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so"
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