"Serious errors were found" message after restoring from a backup
Linode
Linode Staff
I'm seeing an error message after restoring from an Ubuntu 14.04 backup:
Serious errors were found while checking the disk drive for /.
keys:Press I to ignore, S to skip mounting, or M for manual recovery
Can this be fixed?
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jdutton
Linode Staff
After some digging around on Google, I found that this has come up before on Ubuntu 14.04 systems and can be fixed by editing the GRUB2 boot entry.
Based on the instructions I'm seeing, you need to select the Ubuntu option from the boot manager (when rebooting), edit the boot entry to read "rw" instead of "ro", launch Ubuntu, and then edit the /etc/grub.d/10_lupin file to also read "rw" instead of "ro". Here are some links with the instructions listed out:
From inanzzz: 'Serious errors were found while checking the disk drive' error after Ubuntu reboot
From askubuntu: Ubuntu 14.04 not booting after error message. /tmp could not be mounted
And here are instructions on how to launch into the boot manager: GRUB2 101: How to Access and Use Your Linux Distribution’s Boot Loader
In my case the error happened after a migration, and the right fix was here:
https://confluence.lcx.at/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=26345535