Can I reinstall swap using ubuntu 14.04 on a ubuntu 16.04 system?
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My laptop has Ubuntu OS. While trying to boot it is giving me the following error:
97.255199 systemd[1]: timed out waiting for device #device.
[TIME] Timed out waiting for device #device
[DEPEND] Dependency failed for #device
[DEPEND] Dependency failed for Swap
my system had Ubuntu 16.04, i tried to reinstall swap using Ubuntu 16.04 cd, but Ubuntu is getting stuck before the installation screen appears. However the installation screen appears if i use 14.04 Ubuntu. Should i go ahead with that. Thanks
14.04 16.04 swap
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My laptop has Ubuntu OS. While trying to boot it is giving me the following error:
97.255199 systemd[1]: timed out waiting for device #device.
[TIME] Timed out waiting for device #device
[DEPEND] Dependency failed for #device
[DEPEND] Dependency failed for Swap
my system had Ubuntu 16.04, i tried to reinstall swap using Ubuntu 16.04 cd, but Ubuntu is getting stuck before the installation screen appears. However the installation screen appears if i use 14.04 Ubuntu. Should i go ahead with that. Thanks
14.04 16.04 swap
asked Mar 20 at 13:24
RIchard Williams
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14.04 will be End of Life in 13 months, so you probably shouldn't go back to it at this point. Rather it seems like you've probably made some system configuration changes on 16.04, that is likely causing the issue you're seeing, and you should resolve that instead.
– dobey
Mar 20 at 13:27
You can mount the partition, that is used as root partition by your Ubuntu 16.04 LTS system, and edit the file/mountpoint/etc/fstabto turn off swap with a#character at the beginning of the line that controls the swapping (probably only one line). Then you should be able to boot into your Ubuntu 16.04 LTS system, create a correct swap partition and edit the line in/etc/fstabto match your new swap partition. Then it should work with swap after rebooting.
– sudodus
Mar 20 at 14:11
@sudodus: my system is not even booting from hard disk. How do i run these commands.
– RIchard Williams
Mar 20 at 14:19
Boot from a live drive (USB pendrive or DVD disk). If one version or flavour does not work, try another one, for example Lubuntu or Xubuntu with lighter desktop environments than standard Ubuntu, and a different version, 14.04, 16.04, 17.10.1 depending on your hardware. Maybe you need some boot option, for examplenomodesetto make it boot to a graphical desktop environment. Then mount the partition, that is used as root partition by your Ubuntu 16.04 LTS system according to my previous comment.
– sudodus
Mar 20 at 14:24
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When booted from the live 14.04 DVD disk, please check/fix the root file system of the installed 16.04 LTS system,sudo e2fsck -f /dev/sdxnwhere x is the device letter and n is the partition number, so for examle/dev/sda1if the first drive and the first partition (in that drive).
– sudodus
Mar 26 at 11:50
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My laptop has Ubuntu OS. While trying to boot it is giving me the following error:
97.255199 systemd[1]: timed out waiting for device #device.
[TIME] Timed out waiting for device #device
[DEPEND] Dependency failed for #device
[DEPEND] Dependency failed for Swap
my system had Ubuntu 16.04, i tried to reinstall swap using Ubuntu 16.04 cd, but Ubuntu is getting stuck before the installation screen appears. However the installation screen appears if i use 14.04 Ubuntu. Should i go ahead with that. Thanks
14.04 16.04 swap
asked Mar 20 at 13:24
RIchard Williams
1115
My laptop has Ubuntu OS. While trying to boot it is giving me the following error:
97.255199 systemd[1]: timed out waiting for device #device.
[TIME] Timed out waiting for device #device
[DEPEND] Dependency failed for #device
[DEPEND] Dependency failed for Swap
my system had Ubuntu 16.04, i tried to reinstall swap using Ubuntu 16.04 cd, but Ubuntu is getting stuck before the installation screen appears. However the installation screen appears if i use 14.04 Ubuntu. Should i go ahead with that. Thanks
14.04 16.04 swap
14.04 16.04 swap
asked Mar 20 at 13:24
RIchard Williams
1115
asked Mar 20 at 13:24
RIchard Williams
1115
asked Mar 20 at 13:24
RIchard Williams
1115
asked Mar 20 at 13:24
RIchard Williams
1115
asked Mar 20 at 13:24
RIchard Williams
1115
1115
14.04 will be End of Life in 13 months, so you probably shouldn't go back to it at this point. Rather it seems like you've probably made some system configuration changes on 16.04, that is likely causing the issue you're seeing, and you should resolve that instead.
– dobey
Mar 20 at 13:27
You can mount the partition, that is used as root partition by your Ubuntu 16.04 LTS system, and edit the file/mountpoint/etc/fstabto turn off swap with a#character at the beginning of the line that controls the swapping (probably only one line). Then you should be able to boot into your Ubuntu 16.04 LTS system, create a correct swap partition and edit the line in/etc/fstabto match your new swap partition. Then it should work with swap after rebooting.
– sudodus
Mar 20 at 14:11
@sudodus: my system is not even booting from hard disk. How do i run these commands.
– RIchard Williams
Mar 20 at 14:19
Boot from a live drive (USB pendrive or DVD disk). If one version or flavour does not work, try another one, for example Lubuntu or Xubuntu with lighter desktop environments than standard Ubuntu, and a different version, 14.04, 16.04, 17.10.1 depending on your hardware. Maybe you need some boot option, for examplenomodesetto make it boot to a graphical desktop environment. Then mount the partition, that is used as root partition by your Ubuntu 16.04 LTS system according to my previous comment.
– sudodus
Mar 20 at 14:24
1
When booted from the live 14.04 DVD disk, please check/fix the root file system of the installed 16.04 LTS system,sudo e2fsck -f /dev/sdxnwhere x is the device letter and n is the partition number, so for examle/dev/sda1if the first drive and the first partition (in that drive).
– sudodus
Mar 26 at 11:50
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14.04 will be End of Life in 13 months, so you probably shouldn't go back to it at this point. Rather it seems like you've probably made some system configuration changes on 16.04, that is likely causing the issue you're seeing, and you should resolve that instead.
– dobey
Mar 20 at 13:27
You can mount the partition, that is used as root partition by your Ubuntu 16.04 LTS system, and edit the file/mountpoint/etc/fstabto turn off swap with a#character at the beginning of the line that controls the swapping (probably only one line). Then you should be able to boot into your Ubuntu 16.04 LTS system, create a correct swap partition and edit the line in/etc/fstabto match your new swap partition. Then it should work with swap after rebooting.
– sudodus
Mar 20 at 14:11
@sudodus: my system is not even booting from hard disk. How do i run these commands.
– RIchard Williams
Mar 20 at 14:19
Boot from a live drive (USB pendrive or DVD disk). If one version or flavour does not work, try another one, for example Lubuntu or Xubuntu with lighter desktop environments than standard Ubuntu, and a different version, 14.04, 16.04, 17.10.1 depending on your hardware. Maybe you need some boot option, for examplenomodesetto make it boot to a graphical desktop environment. Then mount the partition, that is used as root partition by your Ubuntu 16.04 LTS system according to my previous comment.
– sudodus
Mar 20 at 14:24
1
When booted from the live 14.04 DVD disk, please check/fix the root file system of the installed 16.04 LTS system,sudo e2fsck -f /dev/sdxnwhere x is the device letter and n is the partition number, so for examle/dev/sda1if the first drive and the first partition (in that drive).
– sudodus
Mar 26 at 11:50
14.04 will be End of Life in 13 months, so you probably shouldn't go back to it at this point. Rather it seems like you've probably made some system configuration changes on 16.04, that is likely causing the issue you're seeing, and you should resolve that instead.
– dobey
Mar 20 at 13:27
14.04 will be End of Life in 13 months, so you probably shouldn't go back to it at this point. Rather it seems like you've probably made some system configuration changes on 16.04, that is likely causing the issue you're seeing, and you should resolve that instead.
– dobey
Mar 20 at 13:27
You can mount the partition, that is used as root partition by your Ubuntu 16.04 LTS system, and edit the file
/mountpoint/etc/fstab to turn off swap with a # character at the beginning of the line that controls the swapping (probably only one line). Then you should be able to boot into your Ubuntu 16.04 LTS system, create a correct swap partition and edit the line in /etc/fstab to match your new swap partition. Then it should work with swap after rebooting.– sudodus
Mar 20 at 14:11
You can mount the partition, that is used as root partition by your Ubuntu 16.04 LTS system, and edit the file
/mountpoint/etc/fstab to turn off swap with a # character at the beginning of the line that controls the swapping (probably only one line). Then you should be able to boot into your Ubuntu 16.04 LTS system, create a correct swap partition and edit the line in /etc/fstab to match your new swap partition. Then it should work with swap after rebooting.– sudodus
Mar 20 at 14:11
@sudodus: my system is not even booting from hard disk. How do i run these commands.
– RIchard Williams
Mar 20 at 14:19
@sudodus: my system is not even booting from hard disk. How do i run these commands.
– RIchard Williams
Mar 20 at 14:19
Boot from a live drive (USB pendrive or DVD disk). If one version or flavour does not work, try another one, for example Lubuntu or Xubuntu with lighter desktop environments than standard Ubuntu, and a different version, 14.04, 16.04, 17.10.1 depending on your hardware. Maybe you need some boot option, for example
nomodeset to make it boot to a graphical desktop environment. Then mount the partition, that is used as root partition by your Ubuntu 16.04 LTS system according to my previous comment.– sudodus
Mar 20 at 14:24
Boot from a live drive (USB pendrive or DVD disk). If one version or flavour does not work, try another one, for example Lubuntu or Xubuntu with lighter desktop environments than standard Ubuntu, and a different version, 14.04, 16.04, 17.10.1 depending on your hardware. Maybe you need some boot option, for example
nomodeset to make it boot to a graphical desktop environment. Then mount the partition, that is used as root partition by your Ubuntu 16.04 LTS system according to my previous comment.– sudodus
Mar 20 at 14:24
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When booted from the live 14.04 DVD disk, please check/fix the root file system of the installed 16.04 LTS system,
sudo e2fsck -f /dev/sdxn where x is the device letter and n is the partition number, so for examle /dev/sda1 if the first drive and the first partition (in that drive).– sudodus
Mar 26 at 11:50
When booted from the live 14.04 DVD disk, please check/fix the root file system of the installed 16.04 LTS system,
sudo e2fsck -f /dev/sdxn where x is the device letter and n is the partition number, so for examle /dev/sda1 if the first drive and the first partition (in that drive).– sudodus
Mar 26 at 11:50
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14.04 will be End of Life in 13 months, so you probably shouldn't go back to it at this point. Rather it seems like you've probably made some system configuration changes on 16.04, that is likely causing the issue you're seeing, and you should resolve that instead.
– dobey
Mar 20 at 13:27
You can mount the partition, that is used as root partition by your Ubuntu 16.04 LTS system, and edit the file
/mountpoint/etc/fstabto turn off swap with a#character at the beginning of the line that controls the swapping (probably only one line). Then you should be able to boot into your Ubuntu 16.04 LTS system, create a correct swap partition and edit the line in/etc/fstabto match your new swap partition. Then it should work with swap after rebooting.– sudodus
Mar 20 at 14:11
@sudodus: my system is not even booting from hard disk. How do i run these commands.
– RIchard Williams
Mar 20 at 14:19
Boot from a live drive (USB pendrive or DVD disk). If one version or flavour does not work, try another one, for example Lubuntu or Xubuntu with lighter desktop environments than standard Ubuntu, and a different version, 14.04, 16.04, 17.10.1 depending on your hardware. Maybe you need some boot option, for example
nomodesetto make it boot to a graphical desktop environment. Then mount the partition, that is used as root partition by your Ubuntu 16.04 LTS system according to my previous comment.– sudodus
Mar 20 at 14:24
1
When booted from the live 14.04 DVD disk, please check/fix the root file system of the installed 16.04 LTS system,
sudo e2fsck -f /dev/sdxnwhere x is the device letter and n is the partition number, so for examle/dev/sda1if the first drive and the first partition (in that drive).– sudodus
Mar 26 at 11:50