fsck problem on updating to F10 -- SOLVED

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Mon, 2008-11-10 at 16:42 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Patrick O'Callaghan (pocallaghan at gmail.com) said: 
> > > I'm doing a yum update right now to see if it goes away, but any hints
> > > would be welcome.
> > 
> > I figured it out. The problem is with an external USB drive, which takes
> > a few seconds to come online. The boot process thinks it's failing, but
> > once I get to the root shell and run fsck, it's fine.
> 
> So, the udevsettle in rc.sysinit isn't actually working for you. Lovely.
> 
> > 1) The only reason I figured it out was because I'd seen a similar
> > problem on F9, except that there the boot didn't halt but just proceeded
> > with an error message.
> 
> I don't see why - that would be a fatal error then as well. What error/message
> did you get there?

A big FAILED in red, followed by the rest of the boot process.
Noticeable because it would drop me out of the splash screen into
console mode every time I booted.

poc