Comment 50 for bug 439604

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SteveLoughran (steve-loughran) wrote : Re: [Bug 439604] Re: boot process isn't paused while fsck runs on partition: boot process is completed with fsck running in the background preventing partition from mounting

On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 11:00 PM, Steve Langasek
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> SteveLoughran,
>
> You *can* say 'bootwait' on partitions, and it does work.  bug #496289
> specifically talks about mount sources that are not partitions.  Do you
> have a concrete example of this failing for you in karmic?
>

I had a laptop that would not boot if I set bootwait=true on / or
/home. I have rolled back to 9.04 and therefore the problem no longer
exists.