Unable to boot into ubuntu 15.04 after a clean install

Question

I have an older samsung laptop running dual core amd with 4 gigs ram, And I was previously running windows , due to severe lagging I installed ubuntu and now I am unable to boot up

It keeps showing

ACPI PCC probe failed
Starting version 219
Ata2:soft reset failed (1st FIS failed) 
Alert /dev/disk/by-uuid/612a3bcc-0033-47bf-bcca-b6ad3a4224c8 does not exist..dropping to shell

And then it's says the the devices taking too long

Please look at http://askubuntu.com/questions/516217/alert-dev-disk-by-uuid-xxxxxxxxx-does-not-exist-dropping-to-a-shell . It looks like the same issue answered there. — Chandrasekar, Jun 16 '15 at 13:52

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 16 '15 at 14:03

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Well it seems like it can't detect your disk. You could try reinstalling if only some random bug hadn't happened, or type lsblk and see how are your disks/partitions named, from the install you can know, that if your disk is for example sda, than the first partition(typically ext3/ext4) will be sda1 and the second will be swap ... although I find this order not very logical. Now you know the disk where you installed is called sda1 so you go edit the file /etc/fstab and in the line containing this name /dev/disk/by-uuid/612a3bcc-0033-47bf-bcca-b6ad3a4224c8 you rename it to /dev/XXXY in this cas XXXY == sda1.

Hope it helps :)

answered Jun 16 '15 at 14:03

IcyIcyIce

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Yeah and after editing dont firget to run as root: update-initramfs -u; update-grub; reboot – IcyIcyIce Jun 16 '15 at 14:05
could i get a bit more help , i dont see /dev/disk/ in fstab – Hmm45 Jun 17 '15 at 19:13
I mean /dev/ .... disks are usually named something like sda/hda... show me a ls -la and I`ll tell you – IcyIcyIce Jun 17 '15 at 20:19

Unable to boot into ubuntu 15.04 after a clean install

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