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Re: What causes single user boot?



> *- 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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