Comment 10 for bug 510415

On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 11:22:05PM -0000, sergio.callegari wrote:
> This is not a bug about release notes.

Yes, it is.

> This is a scary bug about mountall.

No, it's not. If you are having problems with mountall, please file a new
bug report against the mountall package.

> Cannot be booted into Linux because some webdav fs gets waited for forever.

And when waiting, the screen should display a prompt to let you skip the
mount or enter a maintenance shell (if you have 'splash' enabled), and, with
or without the prompt, you should be able to press 'S' or 'M' to get the
same effect.

> Cannot be booted into windows because the kubuntu installer does not put it
> into the grub2 menu (but this is another story).

Please file a bug on the ubiquity package about this if you haven't already.
For most users, dual-booting appears to work correctly with both Kubuntu and
Ubuntu.

> But IMHO the real problem is the complete lack of timeouts/means in the
> boot process to get a shell to fix things

As above, there are means to access a recovery shell if a filesystem fails
to mount. If there are bugs, well, then there are bugs - but not bugs that
the developers have seen yet, so please report them and provide more
information so we can try to reproduce the problem.

> Please don't make the boot faster by removing these things.

We did not.

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