[plug] problem booting

[Cameron Patrick]

David & Lisa Buddrige wrote:

| does badblocks give any sign of its progress while it is executing?  when
| executed it says:
| 
| checking for bad blocks in read-only mode
| checking from block 0 to [a really big number]

Haven't used it for a while...  But, from man badblocks:

       -s     Show  the  progress of the scan by writing out the block
              numbers as they are checked.

Cameron.