Linux errors at bootup (very rare)??

[Edward78]

Sometimes I get no such partition from grub2 (before it even comes up) & sometime it boots to busy box & says gave up waiting on root dev. Sorry, didn't write down the details on that one, so it would seem my drive is dieing, but I have tested with the manufacturers lifeguard util more than once, no probs.?

 

[Edward78]

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid -o value -s UUID' to print the universally unique identifier
# for a device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name
# devices that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
# / was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=f733b732-d7d7-410c-ad19-df2c18a4fa81 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# swap was on /dev/sda6 during installation
UUID=0e05a4c1-e898-422e-9e02-6dae7eb78e7c none swap sw 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0

 

[Edward78]

hmm, I don't think this is a failing drive (though it's never a bad time to think "what if my drive failed right now?", what would you loose?).

Has this been happening since a new kernel or other update?

With Ubuntu 8 it didn't, but with Mint 10 it started. My drive is fine by the results of a few tests by the lifeguard util ran in windows.