Disk Drive / not ready yet or not available

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I'll tell you the whole story.

I decided to upgrade my natty from alpha to beta after a long time.After the updates has been downloaded, the system crashed during installation. I rebooted the system and during the plymouth screen I greeted with the error message

"Disk Drive / not ready yet or not available"

and options to wait,skip or manually recover

If I choose to skip, it gives the same error,but with /tmp this time.

And if I skip again, it just freezes.

If I choose the option to manually recover, I get a maintenance shell.

Please help.

Thing I have already tried Waiting running fsck fsck -a, -p,-f mount -a running gparted on this drive from a different ubuntu partition — Mad-scientist, Apr 14 '11 at 06:10
After a system crash during updgrade your files or filesystem may be corrupted. This can best be fixed with a fresh reinstall. — Takkat, Apr 14 '11 at 07:48
I had the same error with a fresh install to 12.04. Worked out the same fix mentioned in Klaus' post. — ijk, Aug 12 '12 at 16:43
NOTE: This question is about the same issue. Hopefully, it can be useful for future users.. — Lucio, Feb 06 '13 at 22:47
possible duplicate of Ubuntu 14.04 not booting after error message. /tmp could not be mounted — bain, Sep 18 '14 at 09:32
or Disk drive boot problem: The disk drive for /tmp is not ready yet or is not present! — bain, Sep 21 '14 at 10:17

score 4 · Answer 1 · edited Jul 08 '13 at 18:53

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This code works fine on my machine (try it just once and the problem should be fixed):

mount -o remount, rw /

My Ubuntu is: Ubuntu 12.04: 3.2.0-49-generic #75-Ubuntu x86_64 GNU/Linux

edited Jul 08 '13 at 18:53

Eric Carvalho

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answered Jul 08 '13 at 18:19

user1512848

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score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Oct 20 '11 at 13:17

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I ran fsck in manual recovery. But I don't remember which atribute label I used - it was check partition and don't repair. I think it vas -r. Then console aked me if I wanted to fix this erorr. I pushed "y" for one hundred times and now system boot without problem.

edited Oct 20 '11 at 13:17

Kris Harper

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answered Oct 19 '11 at 17:46

kunna

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Disk Drive / not ready yet or not available

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