Thread: no boot after upgrading to 9.10

hi,
upgraded ubuntu 9.04 9.10 on acer aspire 5310 laptop . after finishing upgrade, computer cold not boot.
error messages are:

init: sreadahead main process (2143) terminated status 1
mountall: /proc: unable mount: device or resource busy
mountall: /proc/self/mountinfo: no such file or directory
mountall: root filesystem isn't
init: mountall main process (2144) terminated status 1
general error mounting filesystems
maintenance shell started
control-d terminate shell , re-try
give root password maintenance
(or type control-d continue)


giving root password entering maintenance mode
result of mount command is:
# mount
/dev/sda1 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
tmpfs on /lib/init/rw type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
varrun on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
varlock on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=1777)
udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=620)
fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw,realtime)
binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)


fstab file is:
#cat /etc/fstab

#/dev/sda1
uuid=471a032b-9cc7-412c-b4f0-47f6e8d3a35c / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
#/dev/sda5
uuid=64e4b8ef-288e-497c-a29d-c2504d5df1c9 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0


ideas?

in advance
george

try typing "fsck"

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