I had this problem too. What I figured out was that, after installation, (irrespective of timezone you might have selected) the system time is not set correctly.
But while karmic gets booted, it tries to check superblock time against timezone you had selected, obviously gets to conclusion that the superblock was modified in future. This results in warning & booting to root shell to run fsck manually. My experience was, next time when I again setup karmic and made sure that timezone is set correctly before I reboot after first install, it worked & I no more get into fsck issue. -- system fails to boot if root partition has errors https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/432237 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs