install – PullMonkey Blog http://pullmonkey.com Thu, 19 May 2011 03:33:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.6 Ubuntu – The disk drive for X is not ready yet or not present http://pullmonkey.com/2011/05/19/ubuntu-the-disk-drive-for-x-is-not-ready-yet-or-not-present/ http://pullmonkey.com/2011/05/19/ubuntu-the-disk-drive-for-x-is-not-ready-yet-or-not-present/#comments Thu, 19 May 2011 03:33:12 +0000 http://pullmonkey.com/?p=57603 After an Ubuntu install go wrong my laptop started coming up with this error message:
The disk drive for X is not ready yet or not present
In my case, the laptop was having trouble with /dev/sda1, my root partition.
The Solution:
The error message above is met with two solutions, press S to skip or M to do a manual install. Press "M" for manual install.
Once you are the command prompt, your drive will have been mounted as read-only, change that like this:

mount /dev/sda1 -o rw,remount

Now that the drive is in read-write again (test with a simple touch /tmp/test), continue the installation with this:

dpkg --configure -a

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