Ubuntu 16.10 on my Lenovo G500 is booting in emergency mode after upgrade from 16.04. The previous upgrades worked just fine (14.04 to 15.04 to 15.10 and so on).
Things I already tried:
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Attempt 1:
- Booted using Live Ubuntu 16.04 DVD.
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Started a terminal and did a file check on the my root partition i.e:
e2fsck -pvf /dev/sda9
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Rebooted from HDD
Result: Booted in emergency mode
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Attempt 2
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Booted from Live Ubuntu 16.04 DVD
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Did a
tune2fs -l /dev/sda9 | grep -i check
, turned outfsck
was last performed in July 2016. - Mounted
/dev/sda9
and created a fileforcefsck
in `/ยด directory - Rebooted from HDD.
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Result: Booted in emergency mode.
After rebooting the screen looks like this:
Tune2fs results look like this:
I am out of ideas.
Update
I did a fresh install of Ubuntu 16.10, with the contents in my $HOME
directory intact. But I still do not know the exact reason, why it failed to boot.
Best Answer
Found a simple permanent solution. This worked for me on 16.04.2 LTS:
In your GRUB menu, go into edit mode and find the kernel/linux line that contains
"splash quiet"
and replace$vt_handoff
withnomodeset
. You should now be able to boot properly.Edit the file
/etc/grub.d/10_linux
. Find thevt_handoff
variable, around line 27 and changevt_handoff="1"
tovt_handoff="0"
and save the file.Finally:
Reboot