[SOLVED] /boot won't mount

[darkbobby]

I installed the beta today from the image found on the website. Everything was working fine until I did the updates when they came up. I was using kernel 2.6.32-16 and it worked fine, when the new kernel 2.6.32-19 installed it stopped working.

I get the following message when trying to boot in to the system after the update.
"The disk drive for /boot is not ready yet or not present"

When i boot back to 2.6.32-16 it works fine after a few weird warning on the ubuntu splash screen.

Any thoughts on what I can do? Also I included a pic for reference.


[img width=400 height=300]http://img542.imageshack.us/img542/8571/photos.jpg[/img]

[vinnywright]

Re: /boot won't mount

check

ls /boot

and see if you have the initrd.img-2.6.32-19-generic

VINNY

[darkbobby]

Re: /boot won't mount

this is what returns

ls /boot
abi-2.6.32-16-generic     memtest86+.bin
abi-2.6.32-19-generic     System.map-2.6.32-16-generic
config-2.6.32-16-generic   System.map-2.6.32-19-generic
config-2.6.32-19-generic   vmcoreinfo-2.6.32-16-generic
grub             vmcoreinfo-2.6.32-19-generic
initrd.img-2.6.32-16-generic vmlinuz-2.6.32-16-generic
initrd.img-2.6.32-19-generic vmlinuz-2.6.32-19-generic
lost+found

[darkbobby]

Re: /boot won't mount

anyone have any other ideas of something I can try? Just a thought, I ran all the updates at once... I am not sure if after running all of them if reverting back to the old kernel uses the updated packages or not. Also, is it possible the new kernel had the wrong boot partition for some reason? If so can I change it?

[Teunis]

Re: /boot won't mount

Have you tried to boot into the safe mode?

When you are able to get to a command prompt you should at least give the system a chance to repair itself with:
sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get auto clean
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

[darkbobby]

Re: /boot won't mount

I can boot in normally under the old kernel, should I try those commands under that? Also I added a new pic to show errors during boot up if it helps.

[img width=400 height=300]http://img56.imageshack.us/img56/6229/photobp.jpg[/img]

also, network manager wont start when running new kernel without /boot mounted (when I skip from my first photo). So I am not sure how to run those off the new kernel

[darkbobby]

Re: /boot won't mount

also, I ran the commands on the old kernel after boot up, nothing changed. I then tried going into recovery mode on the new kernel and it failed out before bootup

[Teunis]

Re: /boot won't mount

It's hard to read the small picture of your screen but I see a recurring error activating swap.
Because this does not happen when starting up the *-16 kernel it could very well be an error in grub.
I know nothing about grub2 what you use but have read here there is a command to recreate it.

A slightly better readable picture of your screen might give the needed information.

[darkbobby]

Re: /boot won't mount

This is now solved, I asked over on ubuntu forums.

I had /boot at 128mb I did a reinstall after being told fedora had a problem if /boot was under 300mb. New install was 500mb /boot partition and after updates it boots perfectly. Just wanted to supply info in case anyone else has this problem. Thanks for all the help!