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From: Joe LaVigne 
Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.ubuntu
Subject: Re: Bootup stops at fsck?
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 18:20:05 +0000 (UTC)
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On Sat, 24 Feb 2007 14:51:34 +0000, peter wrote:

> 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...

You should have been able to do the same thing by booting to the Ubuntu
live cd...
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