Hi Pete On 15 September 2012 13:02, P .NIKOLIC <p.nikolic1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 13 Sep 2012 22:29:02 +0530 > Aurko Roy <roy.aurko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > >> > Hints please where to look i have compared this system to the laptop >> > and can see no major differences i have checked the drive it reports >> > all ok >> > >> > Pete . > > Humm well still having the same problem i have tried using the older > version of util-linux to no avail > > all disc ID's are correct so what has been screwed up this was perfect > until the update or am i going to be forced to re-install not an > option i look forward to > > Pete . Please accept my apologies if this offends you or appears condescending to you in any way, I have been told by people that they perceive me as such at time. I assure you I mean no offence. Now that that is out of the way, let's get down to business. >From the information you have given so far, you are able to boot up successfully, right? I do remember a glitch when upgrading a while ago that caused a similar issue. Until I found the solution, I just added mount / -orw,rebind in /etc/rc.local That caused my / partition to be rw as soon as the boot sequence is completed but still caused my some issues during the daemon start up. After a while I moved that line to /etc/rc.sysinit so it would execute before the daemons. Still a while later I discovered what the problem was, and I think it was in /etc/fstab, something really obvious, in hind sight but I cannot recall at the moment. Would you mind attaching your fstab? Maybe seeing it will trigger my memory. Andy