On Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 02:43:01PM +0100, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > /dev/hd0s1:clean > /dev/hd0s2 is mounted > e2fsck cannot continue aborting. > Automatic boot failed... help! > # > > at the prompt I could type cat /etc/fstab > > /dev/hd0s1 / ext2 defaults 0 1 > /dev/hd0s2 /boot ext3 defaults 0 3 > /dev/hd0s3 none swap sw 0 0 > /dev/hd2 /media/cdrom0 iso9660 noauto 0 0 > > what could be the problem? what is failing? it looks quite correct > to me. Swap and CDROM shouldn't be fsck'd and they appear correct.
You set hd0s2 to type ext3. -- Richard Braun