Boot goes to disk check, hangs at 74%

[Rallg]

My dual-boot system has Lucid updates as of two days ago. Everything was OK. That is, there was no problem after the most recent updates on this computer.

Today, lucid does a disk check at boot. Everything looks normal, the way it would usually do when boot does a disk check. Graphics OK. But when the check gets to 74%, it hangs. This is repeatable.

Any advice? Presumably I can do something in recovery mode?

[QLee]

Any advice? Presumably I can do something in recovery mode?

See if anything in this thread:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1444879&highlight=disk+check&page=1

or on this launchpad bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sysvinit/+bug/554079

can assist you with your problem or explain what you are seeing.

[Rallg]

Thanks, QLee. The problem was solved by using info in the first link you provided.