Thread: Ubuntu does not start after upgrading to 9.10 error not capable to mount

Hi,
Two days back I advanced from Ubuntu 9.04 to 9.10. After that Ubuntu does not start. When I choose Ubuntu from the boot menu, it goes to command prompt as well as turn out the subsequent error:

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init: sreadhead main proxecc (XXXX) terminated with status 1
mountall:/proc:unable to mount: Device or resource busy
mountall:/proc/self/mountinfo: No such file or directory
mountall: root filesystem isn't mounted
init: mountall process terminated with status 1
General error mounting filesystem
A maintainence shell will be started
Conrtol-D will terminate this shell and re-try
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I was having Ubuntu 9.04 as well as Windows XP installed in my system and both of them were working very well. When the most recent adaptation of Ubuntu was release I started upgrade online. Throughout the installation I did not get any error. But after the upgrade was finished I started getting these error. I even tried starting Ubuntu in safe mode, did not help out. I am competent to login as well as work well from Windows.
Please help :-(

Re: general error mounting filesystems
General error mounting filesystems
A maintenance shell...

I had this message after upgrading from JJ to KK on a dualboot system with XP yesterday and was lucky enough to find the answer (after hours on other problems with SuperGrubDisk I wasn't keen on anything too time-consuming)

All I had to do was edit and save the menu.list file to point to the latest kernel - 2.6.31-14 worked for me. I replaced it in each line of the first Linux option given (and changed the version number to 9.10 for good measure). Careful with the spacing and punctuation. There was another menu.list file with a ~ next to it so I edited and saved that one too - just in case.

The XP part of my dual boot was working and I had installed the Ext2 Installable File System from - google: "fs-driver" , I can't post a url - which gives read and write access to the Linux partitions; I used ZTree to locate and edit the menu.list file, but Explorer and Notepad should do as well.

Rebooted and Karmic Koala loaded and ran as expected. Hope this helps.