On Tue, 2009-06-02 at 15:48 +0200, David King wrote: > I have a further problem now. After having successfully installed Ubuntu > 9.04, when I try to boot into 8.04, it stops part way through saying the file > system check died, and I have to press CTRL-D to continue. When it loads the > login screen, it is in a low graphics mode and the mouse does not work. > > I then restart the PC and the same thing happens, now several times. I need > to boot into 8.04 as that's where all my software is installed as I have > important work to do. Eventually I put everything into 9.04, but for now it > would take too long to get that ready to use, but with 8.04 not booting > properly, it is a real nuisance. > > How can I get 8.04 to boot properly? > > > David King >
When you get to that prompt, run fsck over the disk, so fsck /dev/sda1 or sda2 or whichever partition your 8.04 install is on. It will ask you some questions about how to proceed. Once this has run, reboot and it should work. -Matt Daubney
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