[Bug 404874] Re: Silent disk scan on boot - computer seems to hang

2009-07-29 Thread Campbell
Yes, you can trigger it early. You use the tune2fs command. From memory you would put: sudo tune2fs -c(the number of boots you want before it checks) (the HD of the linux install /dev/). You can confirm by looking at the tune2fs man page. *** Make sure that you put it back to 30 boots, or w

[Bug 404874] Re: Silent disk scan on boot - computer seems to hang

2009-07-29 Thread Bjoern Guenzel
Thank you for looking into this. Any way to trigger the scan before the next 30 boots? It is my mother's notebook, so I might not be around the next time it happens. -- Silent disk scan on boot - computer seems to hang https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/404874 You received this bug notification beca

[Bug 404874] Re: Silent disk scan on boot - computer seems to hang

2009-07-28 Thread Campbell
I was unable to confirm that a hang is caused by the scan disk feature using a fresh install of Jaunty in VirtualBox. When the disk scan ran it indicated that it was running and gave an option to escape the scan. Has the hang happened again or only the one time? If it does happen again, once Ubu

[Bug 404874] Re: Silent disk scan on boot - computer seems to hang

2009-07-27 Thread Bjoern Guenzel
There seems to be a quiet option for most menu items. I'll attach the whole file. The notebook went through several Ubuntu versions, usually via the update functionality (I don't remember when I last installed it from scratch). I have never manually edited the boot options. ** Attachment added:

[Bug 404874] Re: Silent disk scan on boot - computer seems to hang

2009-07-26 Thread Campbell
Thank you for submitting this bug report. Could you check your /boot/grub/menu.lst file to see if the --quiet option is enabled for your OS. If you dont know how to check this could you post the result to this command in the terminal: cat /boot/grub/menu.lst ** Package changed: ubuntu => usplash