9.10 won't boot

[NoOp]

On 12/28/2009 04:02 PM, Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> mlafferty wrote:
>> A friend just called me to say that her computer running 9.10 hangs up
>> during the boot process. The screen reads:
>>
>> File system check failed 04E6218B-2809-43AE-BC31-E1893F5CF660
>>
>> A maintenance shell will now be started
>>
>> Control – D will terminate this shell and retry
>>
>> Root at Judy – Desktop;~#
>>
>> Control D does not correct the problem. This error has occurred once
>> before and was fixed by someone in her town that knows a lot more about
>> Ubuntu than I do. He is out of the country for a couple of weeks.
>>
>> Help!
>>
>> Russell M. Lafferty
>>
> You can try this:
> 1. Boot up in recovery mode: the second selection down on the grub boot 
> screen.
> 2. There should be a selection to run fsck on the recovery menu; if so
> run it, let it complete fully and when the recovery screen comes back
> select normal boot.

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/karmic/+source/friendly-recovery/+changelog
<quote>
friendly-recovery (0.2.8.2) karmic; urgency=low

  * usr/share/recovery-mode/options/fsck:
    - Drop fsck option because we can not reliable remount the
      filesystem readonly for a fsck (LP: #363271). In karmic
      at least dbus, udevd, dhclient and rsyslog are running
      in single user mode.
</quote>
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/friendly-recovery/+bug/363271
[can't fsck / from friendly-recovery]