Laptop had Windows 7.
Installed Ubuntu 14.04
--no problem. grub2 gave appropriate choices
Added mate theme
--no problem.
Installed Kali Linux 1.1.0
--initially defaulted to grub boot menu but got back to grub 2 with grub customizer
Choosing to boot into windows or kali linux is ok.
Choosing to boot into Ubuntu show the mate boot screen with this dialog
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Disk drive UUID=4f135f04-2b2f-4a9e-a108-53e00e6167ae cannot be found
Press S to skip or M for manual
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sudo fdisk -l shows:
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Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x581395e9
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 2048 411647 204800 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2 411648 507443649 253516001 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda3 507445246 945829887 219192321 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
Partition 3 does not start on physical sector boundary.
/dev/sda4 945829888 976773167 15471640 2 XENIX root
/dev/sda5 885022720 945829887 30403584 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda6 507445248 690067455 91311104 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 868362240 885020671 8329216 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda8 690069504 868360191 89145344 83 Linux
Partition table entries are not in disk order
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gksudo gedit /etc/fstab shows
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# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
# / was on /dev/sda6 during installation
UUID=b0c6fcd3-3a45-497f-99dd-4c619ed98b28 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# swap was on /dev/sda7 during installation
UUID=4f135f04-2b2f-4a9e-a108-53e00e6167ae none swap sw 0 0
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more info:
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cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
# / was on /dev/sda6 during installation
UUID=b0c6fcd3-3a45-497f-99dd-4c619ed98b28 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# swap was on /dev/sda7 during installation
UUID=4f135f04-2b2f-4a9e-a108-53e00e6167ae none swap sw 0 0
sudo lsblk -fm
NAME FSTYPE LABEL MOUNTPOINT NAME SIZE OWNER GROUP MODE
sda sda 465.8G root disk brw-rw----
├─sda1 ntfs ├─sda1 200M root disk brw-rw----
├─sda2 ntfs ├─sda2 241.8G root disk brw-rw----
├─sda3 ├─sda3 1K root disk brw-rw----
├─sda4 ntfs LENOVO_PART ├─sda4 14.8G root disk brw-rw----
├─sda5 ntfs LENOVO ├─sda5 29G root disk brw-rw----
├─sda6 ext4 / ├─sda6 87.1G root disk brw-rw----
├─sda7 swap ├─sda7 8G root disk brw-rw----
└─sda8 ext4 └─sda8 85G root disk brw-rw----
sr0 sr0 1024M root cdrom brw-rw----
swapon -s
Filename Type Size Used Priority
If I start the 'Disks' application and hit the little 'play' button when the swap is highlighted, enter my password then rerun the last command, I get:
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swapon -s
Filename Type Size Used Priority
/dev/sda7 partition 8329212 0 -1
I remember when I installed Kali that I specified the free space on the drive as ext4 and the pre-existing swap partition (from the pre-existing ubuntu 14.04 install) as swap. I saw no reason to have two swap partitions.
Clearly the partition is not being mounted for some reason when ubuntu boots. Yes, Kali stole my swap.
help?