It falls back into the shell while checking /hda1. In the shell, I see several things. At the top, there are error messages about bcm43xx (Damn you, Broadcom!), but they don't seem to make Ubuntu fall back to the shell.
After that, there's info about checking the file systems: *Checking root file system... fsck 1.39 (29-May-2006) /dev/hda6: superblock last write time is in the future: FIXED. /dev/hda6: clean, 98598/1572864 files, 516688/3144715 blocks [OK] *Checking file systems... fsck 1.39 (29-May-2006) dosfsck 2.11, 12 mar 2005, FAT32, LFN /dev/hda1; 1013 files, 478469.767600 clusters Then, the system seems to do nothing for a few minutes (very strange, since hda1 is only about 3 GB in size). I've waited, to see if anything would happen, and it turns out that (eventually) the system continued to boot! So the question is now: -Why does it drop into a shell? -Why does checking a small partition take so long? (It sure is annoying!) I'll have a look at that 'LBA' asap. -- filesystem check fails on boot, but filesystem isn't bad https://launchpad.net/bugs/48563 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
