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please correct any mistakes. So I went in to the drive application and disabled the auto mount in mount options. When I rebooted I can only start in the grub mode and can only access safe mode.

Note. I found a command that seems to remount the drive but, then I get login loop. (Ubuntu17.10)

I'm assuming I just need to figure out how to manually mount my sda

Rafael Mendoza
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  • login loop for terminal? or gui? Did you mount your /home directory too? as your gui needs to write files there otherwise you're logged out :) – guiverc May 08 '18 at 23:34
  • I use sudo mount -rw -o remount /dev/sda1 / so that I can go to the normal login and their is the loop – Rafael Mendoza May 09 '18 at 03:04
  • yes I saw that answer which will work if you don't have a separate /home partition; my comment was in case you do have one... – guiverc May 09 '18 at 03:15
  • Since I start In grub mode I hit the "ubuntu" seems to start normally but it then fully loads and there is a black screen with no way to use mouse. There is just an option to login to the command I think is what it is. Thanks – Rafael Mendoza May 09 '18 at 03:16
  • Black screen with no mouse sounds like graphics issue to me... I would suggest removing splash quiet from your boot, maybe adding a '1' (or single to go into single-user or maintenance mode) to undo whatever you did (hopefully its in history if you used terminal) – guiverc May 09 '18 at 03:30

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Boot the computer into recovery mode

Select root in the menu, so you can open the shell.

then run the following command.

mount -o rw,remount /

When you have done this, you can try run the command to fix the issues.

PS! Remember backups important stuff first ;)

BD Bear
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  • If your stuck in a loginloop you can try to do this. https://askubuntu.com/questions/223501/ubuntu-gets-stuck-in-a-login-loop – BD Bear May 08 '18 at 23:04
  • Thanks BD Bear but that didn't do it. – Rafael Mendoza May 09 '18 at 03:21
  • can you get your hands some logs ?

    tail /var/log/syslog tail /var/log/Xorg.0.log and put them on pastebin , and put a link in the comment?

     – BD Bear May 09 '18 at 16:37
  • If you cant find the xorg logfile, do a ls /var/log/Xorg* to se if perhaps it has a different number in its name. or check if you can find it in ~/.local/share/xorg/ – BD Bear May 09 '18 at 16:38