You misunderstood me. ext2read is only useful if you want to recover
important data before uninstalling/reinstalling Ubuntu. You said that there
is no important data, so there's no need to use it.
The attempt to repair it already failed, and the only other methods are
through chroot that are too i
ailto:boun...@canonical.com] On Behalf Of bcbc
Sent: Monday, February 28, 2011 1:15 PM
To: nily...@roadrunner.com
Subject: Re: [Bug 709952] Re: Update won't boot
Yes, definitely a reinstall is the best option if that's the case.
But note that running another operating system is way more risky than
lpful.
-Original Message-
From: boun...@canonical.com [mailto:boun...@canonical.com] On Behalf Of bcbc
Sent: Monday, February 28, 2011 1:15 PM
To: nily...@roadrunner.com
Subject: Re: [Bug 709952] Re: Update won't boot
Yes, definitely a reinstall is the best option if that's the case.
Yes, definitely a reinstall is the best option if that's the case.
But note that running another operating system is way more risky than
installing a little tool like ext2read, if you're concerned about your
wife's computer.
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 12:59 PM, Lyle Paciorek
<709...@bugs.launchpad.n
This is a windows install, on my wife's machine and I don't want to affect
windows - is this the best way, I don't know what these commands do.
How about if I boot into windows (XP) and uninstall then reinstall. The only
thing I have done in Ubuntu is update and install some video players so DVD
Just tried to do that, now all 4 selections -25,recovery, -22,recovery give the
same message.
Last time I tried was when I first sent this message.
Lyle
-Original Message-
From: boun...@canonical.com [mailto:boun...@canonical.com] On Behalf Of bcbc
Sent: Monday, February 28, 2011 12:10 P
the error message EXACTLY SAYS (entire screen)
"ALERT! /host/Ubuntu/disks/root.disk does not exist. Dropping to a
shell!
BusyBox v1.15.3 (Ubuntu 1:1.15.3-1ubuntu5) built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.
(initramfs)_”
This happened after clicking on the update which p
