can't boot Jessie since power drop-out (virtualbox on MacBook with SSD)

From	"Brendan Simon (eTRIX)" <brendan.simon@etrix.com.au>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	can't boot Jessie since power drop-out (virtualbox on MacBook with SSD)
Date	2015-11-05 00:00 +0100
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I was/am running Jessie 8.2 in a VirtualBox on my MacBook.  The MacBook
shutdown without warning while my Jessie VB was running, and now the VM
wont boot properly.  I get stuck in emergency mode.  Ctrl-D does nothing
- just cycle back to same message.

I googled a bit and found that if I comment out entries in /etc/fstab
for the cdrom and my home directory (on the mac) then it will boot fine.
Once booted I can uncomment my home directory entry and mount it ok, but
the system refuses to boot if it is left uncommented.

It used to work find before the power drop-out, so I'm presuming
something is corrupt on the filesystem somewhere.
I tried to boot a live image and do an "fsck /dev/sda1" but it said it
was clean.  Really ???

What's the best way to recover this so my system will boot properly?

I was going to do a reinstall but I couldn't find a way of doing that
without repartitioning the disk (which I didn't want to do as I don't
want to lose any of my data).
I could always create a new virtual disk for my home directory and just
reinstall a new debian system, but I figure there should be a better way
to recover.

Thanks,
Brendan.

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can't boot Jessie since power drop-out (virtualbox on MacBook with  SSD) "Brendan Simon (eTRIX)" <brendan.simon@etrix.com.au> - 2015-11-05 00:00 +0100
  Re: can't boot Jessie since power drop-out (virtualbox on MacBook  with SSD) Charlie Kravetz <cjk@teamcharliesangels.com> - 2015-11-05 00:10 +0100
    Re: can't boot Jessie since power drop-out (virtualbox on MacBook  with SSD) "Brendan Simon (eTRIX)" <brendan.simon@etrix.com.au> - 2015-11-05 01:00 +0100
  Re: can't boot Jessie since power drop-out (virtualbox on MacBook  with SSD) Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <eduardo@kalinowski.com.br> - 2015-11-05 15:00 +0100

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