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Missing Superblock

Posted by Viren  Published in Computer Woes

Recently, I upgraded from Karmic Koala to Lucid Lynx. After upgrading, my system wouldn’t boot up. I have a root mountpoint and four secondary partitions. The root partition is mounted by UUID, but the others are specified by dev name (/dev/sda1), instead of by UUID. I guess that should have been a hint in itself, [...]

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