You might need to reinstall the boot loader to the master boot record (MBR) if it becomes corrupted or erased. This can occur for example if Windows is installed on another partition which overwrites the MBR. There are two ways to reinstall grub, automatically using grub-install, and manually through grub itself. grub-install is a script [...]

The ext3 file system forces an fsck once it has been mounted a certain number of times. By default this maximum mount count is usually set between 20-30. On many systems such as laptops which can be rebooted quite often this can quickly become a problem. To turn off this checking you can use the [...]