[FIXED] unattended reboot for forced filesystem checks

From: Blake Swadling (blake_at_swadling.com)
Date: 01/18/05

  • Next message: Dave Sherohman: "Re: disaster with LILO, Debian Linux, Windows, and booting" 
    To: Debian User <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 15:36:35 +1100

    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 

    -- 
Blake Swadling <blake@swadling.com>
Swadling.com
-- 
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org 
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org
  • Next message: Dave Sherohman: "Re: disaster with LILO, Debian Linux, Windows, and booting"