[FIXED] unattended reboot for forced filesystem checks

[Blake Swadling <blake@swadling.com>]

On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 15:06 +1100, Blake Swadling wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 21:19 -0500, David Mandelberg wrote: 
> > Blake Swadling wrote:
> > > Folks
> > > 
> > > I have some machines here that are routinely turned off at the power
> > > button rather than using the correct shutdown procedure. when they are
> > > restarted i get the usual error "filesystem not cleanly unmounted...".
> > > it then checks them and prompts me to hit ctrl-d.
> > > 
> > > Is there any way that I can force it to immediately reboot rather than
> > > prompting the user for input?
> > > 
> > > Cheers
> > > Blake
> > > 
> > Comment out
> >  /sbin/sulogin $CONSOLE
> > in /etc/init.d/checkrootfs.sh (line 173 for me).
> 
> I found also that touching a file called /fastboot will cause the
> system not to run fsck automagically at boot time. this was what I was
> after.

actually the better fix is to add fastboot to the kernel parameters.
this works like a treat

cheers
Blake

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