Filesystem check

[Emeric Maschino]

> Has something changed in the manner the filesystems are checked at boot
> time?
> 
> Indeed, at startup, once the logical volumes are configured and
> activated, my filesystem is checked but the check fails with the
> following message:
> 
> e2fsck: Cannot continue, aborting.
> 
> I'm then asked to enter the root password in order to manually check the
> filesystem. At this stage, the filesystem is already mounted, so I
> pressed Ctrl-D to continue and my system was rebooted.
> 
> The strange thing is that, if I boot using a rescue CD in order to run
> e2fsck on unmounted filesystems, everything is clean.
> 
> Yesterday, I had the bad idea to finally enter the root password and
> manually run fsck as requested. Of course, this ended up with a totally
> corrupted filesystem. Fortunately, my data are on a separate disk. I've
> then performed a network install of Fedora Core Rawhide during this
> night (most recent packages dated May 2nd). Everything ran fine, but at
> boot time, e2fsck is still failing and ask for a manual intervention!
> Rebooting the system (Windows inside (R)) has no effect.
> 
> Any hint ? This is on an Itanium workstation (ia64) and I don't know if
> this problem also appears on other architectures.

Removing the rhgb quiet boot options as suggested by Paul allowed me to
log in (but you need to cancel the filesystem check when asked for the
root password). As stated by Bill Nottingham, updating to the latest
mkinitrd and rebuilding the initrd image definitely solved the problem
(the rhgb quiet boot options can be passed again to the kernel).

Many thanks to all,

	Émeric