CAnt'reboot: "cannot open /mnt/etc/fstab: no such file"

From: Adam Felix Bogacki (afb_at_paradise.net.nz)
Date: 10/25/04

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    Hi, using Debian unstable I did an 'apt-get dist-upgrade --fix-missing'
    last night and on
    booting this morning found login now had audio, and that the post-login
    screen had remembered
    theme, font-sizes, and other details from my last session. So far so
    good - I was impressed.
    But when I chose metacity as windows manager and deleted the first
    (config) screen
    as normal after using it, things started going wrong.

    I could not move or use the second gnome-terminal opened at login. It
    had no top
    border, and clicking it did not give it focus meaning that I could not
    enter text.

    After some effort I decided that I could not do anything with it and
    rebooted.
    I don't like doing this but have found that the system can usually recover
    after some time. In retrospect, maybe I should have logged out.

    On reboot, the kernel loads normally, but them I get the following boot-log
    message, followed by the iterated sequence ...
    .......<snip>.....
    hdb: irqtimeout: status=0xd0 {Busy}
    ide0: reset: success
    .......<snip>........

    I'd be grateful for any constructive advice.

    Adam Bogacki,
    afb@paradise.net.nz

    [Transcribed boot-log follows.]
    [hda: is my WinXP drive]
    ....................................................................................................................................................
    hda: DMA disabled
    hdb: drive not ready for command
    ide0: reset: success
    blk: queue d732fa00, I/O limit

    /scripts/ext3: add-journal.sh: 30: cannot open /mnt/etc/fstab: no such file
    EXT-fs: INFO: recovery required on readonly filesystem
    EXT-fs: write access will be enabled during recovery
    hdb: irq timeout: status=0xd0 {Busy}

    ide: reset: success
    hdb: irq timeout: status=0xd0 {Busy}

    ide: reset: success
    hdb: irq timeout: status=0xd0 {Busy}

    ide: reset: success
    hdb: irq timeout: status=0xd0 {Busy}

    ide: reset: success
    hdb: irq timeout: status=0xd0 {Busy} 

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