[H-GEN] Linux file system problems

[gavin duley]

On 2 May 2011, at 18:17, Russell Stuart wrote:

> On Mon, 2011-05-02 at 17:55 +1000, Gavin Duley wrote: 
>> Many thanks for the suggestions. Any other suggestions you could think of too would be appreciated...
> 
> This is a Wild Ass Guess, but its possible the problem that is causing
> your boot to fail is also now causing the live CD problems.  Ie, the
> live CD tried to mount it, caused mess and you can not umount as a
> consequence.

Thanks for the suggestion. It could be that, it does seem to make sense in some ways.

The one thing that would seem to count against this is that there are two other partitions -- sda5 (ext4, /home) and sda2 (HFS+, MacOS X partition) -- which it should be able to mount (albeit read-only in the latter case) and are clean, but are not automatically mounted. I was able to manually mount sda5 easily.

> So, I'd try preventing the live CD from automounting them.  I don't know
> how to do that.  The first thing you could try is changing the partition
> type.

I'll have to google this when I get a chance. I'd like to avoid messing with the disk until I actually know what's wrong, so I'll see if I can figure out another method...

thanks,

gavin,

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Gavin Duley
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