Thanks for the 'nobootwait' option, I'll put that in for future. Although you say mountall doesn't know "this is an optional filesystem that should be ignored if it can't be mounted", clearly some part of the process chain does know this because the system knows it has halted because there is a hibernation file on the partition (hence the message, if you can see it). This information could be passed to mountall and used to pass judgement. A partition with a windows hibernation file on is going to be ntfs and is not going to be "this is a critical filesystem that we can't boot without".
I have spotted elsewhere: "But it is dangerous to write to the partition of hibernated OS, because some of the FS tables are still in memory (well, in hibernation file but not in the FS), applications still have handles to some files and generally file system state is kind of unstable." Worst case scenario the offending filesystem could just be mounted read-only... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/896647 Title: Ubuntu Boot halts if a windows partition is hibernated To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mountall/+bug/896647/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
