fschk error prevents ubuntu from booting
So my usb hardware malfunctioned and i got some kind of error on boot which prevented the system from starting up.
fsck from util-linux-ng 2.17.2
/dev/sdb1: clean 380060/4259840 files, 7192759/8514442 blocks
Why did that happen? Well I had an usb hdd connected and I added that external drive to auto mount at startup, so when the usb stopped working the hard drive starts missing. When mountall runs, there’s one or more drives that are not where they are supposed to be and hangs there.
The solution -> Connect a keyboard if you don’t have one connected and press S to skip the fschk. Then #comment the line with the missing drive /etc/fstab. By comment i mean put an # in the beginning of the line. If you have some kind of splash screen at the boot press Alt+Ctrl+F1 or Alt+Ctrl+F7 to see the message and then press S.
