fsck at boot, skip a disk ?
Ed Greshko
Ed.Greshko at greshko.com
Fri Jun 23 23:27:55 UTC 2006
Marcel Janssen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just noticed something stupid of the Fedora boot.
>
> One of my data drives went defect and I removed it from my system.
> At boot, fsck stops and drops me a line (crtl-D, which will reboot) or I mount
> the filesystem read-only.
> Neither one is the correct option in my case. I basically want to mount the
> still correct disks in their normal mode, than edit my fstab and simply
> reboot.
> Is there a way to just skip the one disk that fails the fsck and simply
> continue without that disk ?
>
> Now I need the rescue disk to fix this issue, which I think is a bit too much
> to solve a simple issue like this.
>
> Perhaps I'm just not aware of other options. In case they exist I'd like to
> hear about them.
>
> If there are no options, I hope someone will create those.
The easy way to do this......
1. When the system is booting you have normally have a 5 second window
before grub starts loading. While it is counting down, hit return.
2. This brings you to a menu.
3. Type "a" to add to the kernel parameter.
4. Add a "1" (one) to the end of the line...don't forget the space first.
5. Hit return.
This will boot the system with just the "/" file system mounted. You
can then use vi to edit your fstab.
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