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23-Jul-2007, 02:32 PM #1
Solved: Ubuntu 7.04 booting problem
My Ubuntu 7.04 is working working almost perfectly except a problem.Whenevrer I try to boot into Ubuntu the progress bar stops in the middle and open up a black screen where it checks the filesystem and other things.In the whole long list there is a line that goes "...hdb1 has not been checked for ..... days...".Then the computer restarts and Ubuntu boots normally.Where is the problem?

BTW,my system clock is not right.
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23-Jul-2007, 03:16 PM #2
Ubuntu likes to check the files in every partition it can lay its hand one on.

You can tell it to stop by editing the /etc/fstab and make each partition mounting instruction ending with the last two digits as "0 0".

You should leave the "/" untouched though.
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23-Jul-2007, 03:27 PM #3
It happens to me on every 30th boot, I believe.

Handy feature, it is. You can change it if you wish.
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24-Jul-2007, 03:23 AM #4
The list is long and the screen disappears too fast to be wholly copied.But in the middle of the list it says something like...."fsck died with exit status....[FAILED]..." Why is it showing?There must be something wrong.

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24-Jul-2007, 09:32 AM #5
You can view your boot logs. I think this information would all be there.

Look in /var/log I'm not near an Ubuntu machine right now. But that's where it is in, wait, let me check what distro this is, OK, CentOS. lol.
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31-Jul-2007, 05:49 AM #6
CMOS battery was the culprit!Replacing it solved the problem.
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31-Jul-2007, 06:07 AM #7
what exactly is "the /etc/fstab" anyway???
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31-Jul-2007, 06:47 AM #8
It is a text file telling the kernel all the partitions it "must" mount. In it it will have the "/" or the root directory of the Linux, Swap partition and all the other partitions the user wishes to see available.
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31-Jul-2007, 02:27 PM #9
Here are two sites that may interest you if you wish to learn more:

http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com/2006/0...mystified.html
http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/fstab.html
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31-Jul-2007, 02:58 PM #10
oh, thanks.
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