On Sun, 2009-02-08 at 13:25 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > I have a two-week old Kubuntu 8.04 installation that is now failing to > boot. When I start the computer, I get the Kubuntu graphic, then it > drops to tty1 and I get a text login. When I log in with my username > and password I get a message that the system is read only.
> Other than / no partitions are mounted. As /home is it's own partition I > cannot > access my files there. What do you mean? what's the actual output of "mount"? > I then logged in as root (I do have a root password) and tried running > init 5 however that did nothing. > > What must I do to diagnose this? Thanks. Check the error message in the log files > Note that this message was originally posted to Ubuntu-user, however, > that list is good for MS bashing and not for solving technical > problems, especially with a laptop! Please excuse my cross post. Ubuntu-user is the right place to ask your question. Follow-up there please. BTW, review your email signature as one may be considered it as spam. Regards, Franklin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
