Upon reboot, Kubuntu looks for CD that used to be in Drive

[ScottyK]

I have a notebook that I dual-boot Win7 and Kubuntu on.

One day I was on the Win7 side installing some printer drivers, and used the install CD for it.

Once I was finished, I switched back over to the Kubuntu side.

As it was loading, it tried to boot from the windows printer install disk, and obviously failed. The option came up to "skip" mounting and press on, which is what I selected.

Problem now is that every time i boot into Kubuntu, it tries to boot from CD, even though I took the CD out. Only option that will resume loading Kubuntu is to "skip" mounting.

How do I tell the system to "forget" about that CD that was in the drive?

Thanks!

[skunk]

Re: Upon reboot, Kubuntu looks for CD that used to be in Drive

Change the boot order in the BIOS

[ScottyK]

Re: Upon reboot, Kubuntu looks for CD that used to be in Drive

Went into BIOS, changed boot order to Internal HD, no effect.

Here's a picture of the error message.

Text of the error -

"The disk drive for /media/disk is not ready yet or not present."

[img width=400 height=245]http://www.geeks4christ.org/error1.jpg[/img]

[dibl]

Re: Upon reboot, Kubuntu looks for CD that used to be in Drive

It might be that the installation CD is still listed as a "source repository". Can you open Kpackagekit, find the "sources", and un-check the CD? Then you'll have to let Kpackagekit update, then if you do a shutdown and reboot, it should not look for the CD.

[ScottyK]

Re: Upon reboot, Kubuntu looks for CD that used to be in Drive

Just checked, and from all the sources, the CD was not checked.

[dibl]

Re: Upon reboot, Kubuntu looks for CD that used to be in Drive

According to the photo of the screen, it's running fsck. If you have a bootable Live CD, with either GParted or Partitionmanager on it, boot that, and run fsck on your partitions.

The other issue is "/media/disk" -- what is that? If you have a USB stick connected, that might cause it -- otherwise you need to show us /etc/fstab, and/or the output of

sudo blkid

so we can see what that device is.

[ScottyK]

Re: Upon reboot, Kubuntu looks for CD that used to be in Drive

I'm on a business trip right now and don't have access to a live CD, but I'll run fsck when I get home this weekend.

Here's the output of blkid.

/dev/sda1: LABEL="System Reserved" UUID="563A80A93A808827" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sda2: LABEL="Win7" UUID="40089E54089E4934" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sda3: LABEL="Multimedia" UUID="00DE9491DE948118" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sda5: UUID="8409d0f4-d847-4227-a98b-0fd92479d93e" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sda6: UUID="8f6971ce-2c55-4d9f-abed-1e3bc20f142f" TYPE="swap"

I'm not using a USB flash drive, and no external hard drive.

[dibl]

Re: Upon reboot, Kubuntu looks for CD that used to be in Drive

OK, that's a very clean, standard dual-boot installation. I think your "problem" is just the need to run fsck on the ext4 fileysystem. I agree that the "new & improved" method of hiding the fsck process behind the Plymouth splash is very non-obvious to the user, and may well create the impression of a "hung" boot. Which may cause the user to push the power button .... which may cause actual filesystem corruption ... which generates the need for a fsck .....

Boot Windows, and run chkdsk and dfrag. Then boot a Linux Live CD that has Gparted* on it, and run fsck on the ext4 partition. Then reboot and it should come up as you expect it to.

It also might help to go into your BIOS (after your fsck), and change the boot sequence to NOT boot first from the CD. Just for this time. If all goes well, you can try resetting it later.


*here's my favorite: http://partedmagic.com/download.html