[SOLVED] Booting impossible: A start job is running for /dev... (..., no limit)
by JZL240I-U from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5MV9T)
One of my disks is dying. It contained a swap partition with low priority. So I commented out the swap line in /etc/fstab and used dd to overwrite the disk with zeros. While dd was running I did other work and finally forgot the dd console job when I shut down the machine.
Now I get the above message when I try to boot and since there is no limit boot simply stalls. Normally one would be hosed royally but this is a multi-boot machine with several disks from which I can boot. The GRUB instance of my usual disk stalls trying several other distros too, so I assumed it is a grub.cfg thing. But something happened to the GRUB on the other disk as well -- which at least times out after 90 seconds. I can't find anything in the net on this. Any ideas here?
Now I get the above message when I try to boot and since there is no limit boot simply stalls. Normally one would be hosed royally but this is a multi-boot machine with several disks from which I can boot. The GRUB instance of my usual disk stalls trying several other distros too, so I assumed it is a grub.cfg thing. But something happened to the GRUB on the other disk as well -- which at least times out after 90 seconds. I can't find anything in the net on this. Any ideas here?