Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon (Ubuntu 7.10,): fsck died with exit status 8

While booting into system, it always stops at prompt command with this error:

fsck died with exit status 8

Do not restore the whole system with partimage first, Do not do fsck repair too here.

1. Check /var/log/fsck/checkfs, open it with gedit (or other text writer) and found the error detail was:

fsck.ext3: unable to resolve 'UUID=b0cf22fd-cf7e-430b-b667-2ed7adc25e24'
fsck died with exit status 8

The problem obviously comes from this UUID.

2. Go to check /etc/fstab, found the aforesaid UUID was referred to my sda9. (note1)

3. To check the new UUIC of sda9, type the following in the terminal:

sudo vol_id /dev/sda9

and found the new UUID=9E3C0C603C0C3635

4. Before editing fstab, make a backup of it:

sudo cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.old

then at terminal, key in: sudo gedit /etc/fstab

inside fstab, replace the old UUID (b0cf22fd-cf7e-430b-b667-2ed7adc25e24) with this new UUID (9E3C0C603C0C3635) for sda9 part. For my case, I need to change the filesystem from ext3 (for a swap partition) to ntfs, and other options I copy from other ntfs drives.

5. Save file and restart the PC, the problem was rectified!

note1: I used to use partimage to make backup of the whole system, just in case the system crashes and I could restore the system within 20 mins. Why did the above issue rise? Cause I used the backup to restore the whole system after I re-partitioned my hard drive with an extra drive for storage purpose, which is referred to sda9 while this sda9 was referred to a swap partition. Thus, the UUID which seized the problems now was previously belonging to the swap partition, not the new ntfs partition.