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Subject: Re: Bootup stops at fsck?
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On Sat, 24 Feb 2007 13:02:44 +0100, De Kameel 
wrote:

>peter@invalid.com wrote:
>> As of this morning my (mostly) beautifully behaved Edgy won't boot in
>> either full or recovery mode. Messages on screen say fsck root file
>> system check ok, then checking file system - and that's where it
>> freezes.
>
>I vaguely remember I had that problem after I had disconnected a 
>second/third harddisk in my system: the bootup apparently kept searching 
>for the missing harddisk. Solved by putting back in the harddisk.
>
>Could something like this be the cause of your problem?
>
>de Kameel

Thanks for the suggestion - you were spot on. I have a 250Gb 2nd drive
which I had FAT32 formatted so it could be written by both windows and
linux.

For some reason I can't fathom, writing to it on a previous linux boot
had screwed the file system. I discovered this because on booting into
windows, the drive had vanished.

I recovered it in windows, and Ubuntu then booted.

That's definitely one up for windows xp, though - Ubuntu wouldn't give
me any access to the machine at all, let alone let me recover the
drive. Some food for thought there...
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