reboot gets stuck at Defer for Background Checking

[kristy1979]

Please help. I have rebooted several times and the process stops here.

 

[SirDice]

It probably checking other drives/filesystems. Depending on the size that can take a while.

 

[kristy1979]

IS there a way to boot without background checking or continue booting without it?

 

[SirDice]

Boot to single user mode then:

fsck -y

Let it complete at least once. There's a reason the filesystems are marked "dirty" and this needs to be fixed first. No amount of rebooting will make the flag go away.

 

[phoenix]

Press CTRL+T to get a status update of what the process is doing.