Kubuntu is unable to boot.

[dracou]

My hdd is: windows-ntfs + swap + linux + other-ntfs-partition


On mounting root file system, i get this error:


Booting 'Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.15-26-286'
root (hda0,5)
Filesystem type is oxvkfs, partition type 0x83
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-26-386 root=/dev/hdc6 ro quiet splash

[Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1c00, size=0x15787d]
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.15-26-386
[Linux=initrd @ 0x1f947000, 0x675abe bytes]

savedefault
boot
Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel.
mount: Mounting /dev/hdc6 on /root failed: No such device
mount: Mounting /root/dev on /dev/.static/dev failed: No such file or directory
mount: Mounting /sys on /root/sys filed: No such file or directory
mount: Mounting /proc on /root/proc failed: No such file or directory
Target filesystem doesn't have /sbin/init

Busybox v1.01 (Debian 1:1.01-4ubuntu3) Built in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.
/bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off
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Help please

[askrieger]

Re: Kubuntu is unable to boot.

I'm somewhat confused by your post. It's not clear what you are doing. This may simply be a matter of vocabulary. You can't mount the root file system from linux because it is already mounted. Trying to mount an already mounted file system may be the source of your problem, if that indeed is what you did.

On the other hand if you were trying to boot linux and you have the line "root (hda0,5)" instead of "root (hd0,5)" in your /boot/grub/menu.lst file, I'm surprised you didn't get a Grub error. Also, your filesystem is probably ext2fs, or ext3fs, not oxvkfs. But where I get REALLY CONFUSED is in the next line where it says that vmlinuz is on hdc6, not on hda6 (which corresponds to the (hd0,5) that you probably should have had above.

If you're having Grub errors, this HowTo is a good place to start. If you'd like us to take a look at THE RELEVANT PORTIONS of your /boot/grub/menu.lst, please copy ONLY the lines from the FIRST line that says "title..." to the FIRST line that says "boot". It won't do you or us any good to post a 300 line file, when four lines are all you need.