When I boot using the Kubuntu Live CD I can see the partitions (although
there seems to be a mysterious 1Kb partition, sda3) but it hasn't mounted
any of them
Will a grub re-install help or am I likely to have problems with the
partition table? If I do need to just re-install GRUB then what is the
command? Google says: "grub-install /dev/hda1" Is it that simple?
Many thanks,
-Alasdair-
On 2/27/07, Alasdair Ross <alasdair.ross@???> wrote:
>
> Hello all,
> I thought things seemed to be running a bit too smoothly...
>
> In the last 2 days I have had problems booting. I'm running Kubuntu
> 6.10 on an Acer Aspire 5633. One of 3 events would occur:
> 1. It would boot but after the KDE splash I would just get a white screen
> and nothing would happen (no CAPS-lock light when I pushed the key so I
> assume keyboard entry didn't work either)
> 2. It would boot but I'd get no sound
> 3. It would boot, I'd get sound, but I wouldn't be able to dial a PPP
> connection
>
> Occasionally I'd boot into a working system. However, on booting I'd get
> a load of HEX numbers whizz by at the filesystem check stage and it would
> say that errors were found but not corrected.
> I could boot using the Recovery mode entry in GRUB and, after checking the
> man pages several times I attempted to use fsck to fix what I assumed was a
> filesystem error. I ran "fsck -a -A" thinking this would run through the
> entries in fstab and automatically fix errors. I don't think this is what
> it did.
> Anyhow, I'm now presented with a system where, upon turning on the laptop
> GRUB begins to load but stops with: Error 17.
>
> Can anyone tell me what I've done and how I can fix it?
>
> On the disk are the following partitions (as far as I can remember):
> FAT32 ACERIMAGE (Acer backup image)
> FAT32 WinXP MCE
> ext3 /dev/sda5 /home
> swap /dev/sda6 /swap
> ext3 /dev/sda7 /
>
> As always, I'd be incredibly grateful for any help you can give. I'd
> really like not to have to reinstall everything as I was just getting
> settled.
>
> -Alasdair-
>
