> *- Christopher D. Judd wrote about "Re: What causes single user boot?"
> |
> | This happens on my system since upgrading to Hamm. The problem seems
> | to be that fsck -A tries to check /fd0 (since I have entries for /fd0 in
> | fsab) and fails since no disk is in the drive. If that is the case then
> | the FSCKFIX=yes won't help. I have't had time to address this issue yet.
> | Changing the /etc/fstab entries or the startup script may be necessary.
> |
> | -Chris
> |
>
> Make sure the sixth field in your /etc/fstab is set to 0(zero) or
> empty for removable media. From 'man 5 fstab'
>
> The sixth field, (fs_passno), is used by the fsck(8) pro
> gram to determine the order in which filesystem checks are
> done at reboot time. The root filesystem should be speci
> fied with a fs_passno of 1, and other filesystems should
> have a fs_passno of 2. Filesystems within a drive will be
> checked sequentially, but filesystems on different drives
> will be checked at the same time to utilize parallelism
> available in the hardware. If the sixth field is not pre
> sent or zero, a value of zero is returned and fsck will
> assume that the filesystem does not need to be checked.
>
>
Sure enough, that fixed it. Odd that this problem only showed up
when I upgraded to Hamm, though. Thanks for the tip.
-Chris
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