was new install 8.04 fail on boot

[Eberhard Roloff]

nepal google wrote:
> I cannot access the original mail or replies, lost them and 
> the install. First I then tried the fsck /dev/sda6 but that 
> was obviously going to take an age and I didn't want to sit 
> at the machine typing enter enter enter for 3 questions 
> that kept coming up to ignore and fix errors. I thought if 
> the drive is that badly screwed, no sense in trying to fix 
> it. 

This could possibly have been a bad mistake.

First of all, if you do not like manpages fsck --help is your friend. 
The very first option that you get (-p) is used for "automatic repair, 
no questions"

Secondly I had great success in fixing Windows and Unix filesystems 
doing just this.

Admittely it also failed once (on a screwed Ubuntu filesystem, by the 
way ;-). But my balance of success and failure tells me, that it mostly 
works.

Kind regards
Eberhard