SusanLB wrote:
US installed flawlessly for me. When I rebooted back into my Debian 7 it dropped to the Command Line. My first investigation showed no partitions and 0 files in home Directory. (Somehow I managed not to panic...*) A little thought and reading later, I remembered the partition I installed US on was listed in my Debian /etc/fstab. When I deleted the pertinent line in the fstab file, Debian booted normally. I can only conclude I should have thought of this before installing UB along side Debian.
It's not taken for granted that it should cause Debian problems booting if it mounts a partition that has another OS on it.
Stephen's instructions seem to be about making sure to get each OS to be properly written to Grub (the bootloader). However, that is not necessarily linked to problems /etc/fstab.
If you have problems mounting partitions and drives, it's always a good idea to post the contents of your /etc/fstab in your support request. Also, the respective outputs of:
Code:
fdisk -l
,
Code:
blkid
and
Code:
mount
can be helpful, so make sure you get that information if you experience any more problems.
Afaik, the standard method for mounting in /etc/fstab is by device name (e.g. /dev/sdb1), but I prefer to use LABELS, as they won't change (device names are managed by the kernel and CAN change, e.g. if you boot from a removable drive) unless I do it myself, they're easy to remember and can be made meaningful (unlike UUIDs, for instance). You can assign LABELS using Gparted or gnome-disk-utility, which I find very useful.
This should be helpful for fixing Debian automounts:
https://wiki.debian.org/fstab, and this for Ubuntu and US:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Fstab