Boot hangs on "Mounting local filesystems"

hondacivic_at_whoever.com
Date: 12/29/03 

Date: 29 Dec 2003 12:31:53 -0800

Greetings.

My Mandrake 9.1 is hanging on "Mounting local filesystems" pretty much
every other boot.
I can't figure out why. The logs don't reveal any problems, and I've
done 'fsck -f' from a CD rescue boot a number of times, which
sometimes revealed some problems that were corrected, and other times
no problems were found.

Are there any issues or reliability problems with EXT3?
I never had this problem when I used reiserfs in the past.
I switched to ext3 because of a performance chart I saw, where
reiserfs looked pretty bad, and ext3 only slightly worse than the
ext2, which was fastest.
xfs was also rated fast, but wasn't available out of the box.
I thought, ext3 seems defacto standard these days, so I figured, let's
use something that's used a lot by others. But now these problems.
I haven't lost any data yet, but I'm starting to get worried.

Is there anything I can do to provide people with more information
that will hopefully eventually lead to the cause of the hang?

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