Jaunty Boot-up Problem

[Graham Todd]

I have a similar problem to those with a shutdown problem, although my
install was from a disk burnt on my home machine from the Desktop .iso
file.  A short time afterwards, here in the UK, my regular DVD with
"Linux Format" magazine arrived and I reinstalled from that disk - with
the same result.  So I checked the file against the HASH after
downloading again, and then tried a clean install, which didn't work.
Finally, I tried a clean install of Ubuntu 8.10 and updated it, with
the same results.

By now, I feared that it was a hardware problem (my equipment is
detailed at the end), so I Googled around to find a solution - other
than buying a new desktop PC - and found that many users had
experienced the same shutdown problems, but I wonder if anyone has
experience the same start-up problem as me. 

The problem I am having is that Ubuntu doesn't seem to shutdown the
system properly, even though the shutdown command has been given and
confirmed, through the gui.  When it reboots, it gives an error message
to the effect that Jaunty did not shutdown cleanly and it would have to
check the drive, which it does - interminably.  Suddenly the screen is
full of text with the instruction to Press Ctrl+D if you want to
continue the boot process.  If I press Ctrl+D, all continues fine -
until the next startup.

Am I doing something wrong? Is there an easy answer to my problem?
Should I log a bug report?

If anybody knows how to correct this behaviour, please let me know!

[Using a home built PC with a Trendsonic case and an Asus motherboard,
withan Intel Pentium D processor running at 3.00 Ghz. No graphics card,
sound card, or separate internet card: all through motherboard. with a
150 GiG hard drive formatted into three partitions (/,/home,swap)]


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Graham Todd