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Have To Mount Disk At Start-Up?

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Linux Mate 13 64bit

AM3+ FX 4130 / AM3+ FX 4300
GA-78LMT-SP2 / GA-78LMT-SP2 AM3+
STT DDR 1600 / STT DD3 1600 (2x4) 8GB

I shut down my computer last night and whe I turned it back on this morining, I was greeted by a black screen that said, I needed to mount my hard drive, select S or M. I choose S and my screen sign in password came up and I login into Mint. I'm not dual booting, this is a new custome built computer, new hard drive and the only other Distro that's been on this machine is Linux Mint 15 Mate, until I installed Linux Mint 13. I'm a novice and I read a couple of sites where some people experienced the same thing, but I didn't fully understand. I messed up a HDD last mouth fooling around with partitions. So, I need some assistance, thank you.


Here's the info when I ran sudo fdisk -l

studio1@studio1-GA-78LMT-USB3 ~ $ sudo fdisk -l
[sudo] password for studio1:

Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000bc54e

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 2048 969469951 484733952 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 969471998 976771071 3649537 5 Extended
Partition 2 does not start on physical sector boundary.
/dev/sda5 969472000 976771071 3649536 82 Linux swap / Solaris
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hibba

Re: Have To Mount Disk At Start-Up?

Post by hibba »

Hi,

Sorry, I know this is a little late, but if you're still experiencing this issue, it's usually caused by Linux being unable to properly mount one of your partitions for some reason. Does it say which partition is giving it trouble on the black screen? (It should probably be something similar to /dev/sd# or maybe start with a UUID=.... . I'm not entirely sure) .

Hibba
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