was new install 8.04 fail on boot

[nepal]

On Friday 21 Nov 2008, nepal google wrote:
> On Friday 21 Nov 2008, Derek Broughton wrote:
> > Your loss if the filesystem is seriously damaged.
> > --
> > derek
>
> Do you mind explaining why?
>
> nepal.

I understand now from Eberhard's reply.

I had nothing really bad to lose from that drive, I had only 
just swapped over to it and using 8.04 a couple of days ago 
and I did think it was a balance between convenience and 
data loss. But thanks for the heads up.

nepal.