How do you make Ubuntu boot up, ignoring errors?


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I have a hard drive that simply refuses to work in ubuntu. I've ran diagnostics and the drive is fine. Ubuntu will only boot 1/10 times with the hard drive plugged in. The others it throws an "emask 0x0

exception" and refuses to boot. I was wondering if there was a way to make ubuntu simply ignore the error and keep booting, because the hard drive isnt critical. It seems odd that ubuntu would just

flat out stop working, even for a nonessential hard drive. Is there an argument i can use during boot-up that would let me bypass the error?

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Sorry, i should have mentioned that the particular hard drive is formatted with ntfs, and chkdsk reports 0 errors on the drive.

I didnt format it as ext3 a while back to see if it would have the same problem, and it did.

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The drive is NTFS? Linux doesn't use an NTFS filesystem to run from. Even 'wubi' creates a large file that is essentially an image of an ext3 filesystem.

How are you set up??!?

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i must have been unclear. I have two hard drive. One is ntfs, and is a drive solely for media. The other drive has an ext3 partition on it that contains ubuntu. The NTFS drive is what causes the issues.

Even when i had it formatted as ext3 it still wouldn't boot. I think it may be because its a seagate drive. I've heard of some of their drives having issues due to unsupported power saving features.

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That seagate issue was due to USB connection being established as one type, but upon re-waking, it was different. Should not have anything to do with this.

When you boot Ubuntu from a LiveCD, does it boot reliably? I'm trying to determine if the problem is general Linux/Ubuntu, or if it is something to do with the install/configuration you have (and normally boot from).

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I've actually tried reinstalling Ubuntu (7.10) and it happens the same each time. Booting from a live cd seems to work though, may have just been one of the 1 out 10 times where it lets me boot though.

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