Thank you very much for your help. Sadly, the problem hasn't been solved. Alt+SysReq+R made the following line appear: "[some_number|some_number] SysReq: Keyboard mode set to XLATE" The 'some_number' things I saw probably expressed a 32-bit time (the time passed since 1970 -- or whatever date is used to start the clock). Pressing Ctrl-C and Ctrl-D still didn't make a difference.
I edited the /etc/fstab file (the number was a 1, instead of a 2. I changed it to 0). I rebooted, and encountered the same error again. Well, almost the same, that is. There were only 2 lines (instead of the previous 4): *Checking file systems... fsck 1.39 (29-May-2006) After some time, other text appears: "There are differences between boot sector and its backup." There was also something else, but it disappeared to fast for me to read. I also saw something like: "Not automatically fixing this." A google search turned up this thread: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=32531 Oh, and don't go too easy on me :-P I'm not that familiar with the command line, but I know a bit about programming ;-) -- filesystem check fails on boot, but filesystem isn't bad https://launchpad.net/bugs/48563 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
