[ubuntu-uk] Strange problem on Lucid ....

[Barry Drake]

Hi there ....

Wondered if anyone has any thoughts on this.  I'm running Lucid on a 
Dell Inspiron Mini v10.  Every 10th or so re-boot, it seems to carry out 
a forced disk check.  I don't know if it's relevant, but it has an SSD 
drive which I formatted ext2 on the advice on an Ubuntu forum as ext2 is 
faster than ext3 and less write-intensive so more appropriate for an SSD.

Dring the forced check, the original Ubuntu splash screen was counting 
up to around 71% and freezing.  Altering grub to remove "quiet splash" 
showed that the boot process was getting beyond fsck and displaying a 
further couple of lines.  I omitted to note down what these said.  I 
tried including GRB_CMDLINE_LINUX="noapic".  This did not help.  I 
currently have GRB_CMDLINE_LINUX="noapic, nolapic, noapci" in 
/etc/default/grub (followed by update-grub), and the last couple of 
times the disk  check has been observed, it has completed OK.

fsck was forced with the comment "disk not unmounted cleanly".  I don't 
know why this happens as I've done a normal shutdown on every occasion 
so far.  Any thoughts?

Also, I don't fully understand the implications for me of taking out 
apic etc, and whether any of the apic/apci/lapic options might be what I 
really need.  I've done almost no low level stuff, and am interested to 
know a bit more.  Is there a grub expert in the house?

Regards,
Barry

-- From Barry Drake (The Revd) Health and Healing advisor to the East Midlands Synod of the United Reformed Church.  See http://www.urc5.org.uk/index for information about the synod, and http://www.urc5.org.uk/?q=node/703 for the Synod Healing pages.

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