/dev/hda3 has been mouneted 29 times.......

[Tom Varghese]

Sometimes, my computer shows a message like this at boot time

Checking root file system fsck 1.41.2 (02-Oct-2009)
/dev/hda3 has been mounted 29 times without checking......Check forced..

And after some delay, the computer becomes normal. What may be the reason?

[reed9]

This is normal. If you didn't have a graphical bootsplash, but instead saw the system messages, you'd see during that pause the system running fsck on your filesytem.

There are ways to disable this, if you google around, but if you do, you'd want to manually check the filesystem integrity every once in a while.

[oz]

As reed9 said above, you can disable it, but you can also change the frequency of the filesystem checks, should you wish.

[Tom Varghese]

This is normal. If you didn't have a graphical bootsplash, but instead saw the system messages, you'd see during that pause the system running fsck on your filesytem.

There are ways to disable this, if you google around, but if you do, you'd want to manually check the filesystem integrity every once in a while.

Can I have a graphical bootsplash in my debian lenny? If yes how?

[reed9]

There are a couple of options for a graphical bootloader in Debian.

The hard way is Bootsplash.

The easy way is Usplash.

[Tom Varghese]

There are a couple of options for a graphical bootloader in Debian.

The hard way is Bootsplash.

The easy way is Usplash.

I tried to install usplash in debian in the above link, but failed. The splash screen appears while exiting. But at boot time, it shows some error and a normal blackscreen booting is occuring. My /etc/usplash.conf file was:

# Usplash configuration file
# These parameters will only apply after running update-initramfs.

xres=1024
yres=768
title Debian GNU/Linux lenny
root hd0,2)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-686 root=/dev/sda10 rw ramdisk_size=10000 init=/etc/init lang=us vga=791 splash=verbose
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-1-686



But 2 errors showed at boot time: 1) at line 6 - something about title 2)at line 7 - something about the missing of "("
So I changed the script as shown below:

# Usplash configuration file
# These parameters will only apply after running update-initramfs.

xres=1024
yres=768
# title Debian GNU/Linux lenny
root (hd0,2)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-686 root=/dev/sda10 rw ramdisk_size=10000 init=/etc/init lang=us vga=791 splash=verbose
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-1-686

But now also the same error occures. I don't know what's the reason. Please help me, it's urgent.

[reed9]

I'm afraid I don't run Debian and I don't use usplash, so I'm not sure what the problem is with that guide.

Here is another one: How to Install usplash under Debian testing/lenny at Too Far North

You might want to start a new thread about usplash.

[Lakshmipathi]

regarding fsck
=----------------

fsck automatically runs after
specific mount count(and time period)

to increase mount time,(ie no.of times system
rebooted)

(run following command as root)

tune2fs -c 50

this will start fsck only after 50 startups


If you want to disable (Though
it's strongly recommand to run fsck
from time to time , to maintain file system
integrity)

tune2fs -c 0

for more check

man tune2fs