was new install 8.04 fail on boot

[nepal google]

On Friday 21 Nov 2008, Eberhard Roloff wrote:
> 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"

I did use fsck --help that is how I found the other options.

The automatic file checking when failed said IIUC not to use 
the -p option for the manual check, but regardless it is 
done now. The crunch was I am not prepared to sit at a 
machine typing enter enter enter for hours.

nepal.