os doesn't boot, "filesystem needs repair."

[mark]

Hi, Paula,

paula at scripps.edu wrote:

> No, this machine was a date cruncher and whatever these researchers do
> here at tsri.  Fortunately, this was not a mail server or a home server,
> but several of the labs here at tsri use this machine for their research. 
> I got a lot of thank yous when I walked in the lab and told them it was up

Good for you!

> and running to go try it.  I'm ashamed that it took me 12 days to do an
> hour or two fix from cds.  Thank you, I assumed it was because the
> filesystem was not umounted, although the os never made it up.  Why do
> they even have that option.  Many thanks again Mark.  I'm at the RH summit

When a system boots, it does the filesystems before they're mounted. Root is, 
of course, a  special case, and *if* I remember correctly, it gets mounted ro, 
the initial ramdisk is loaded into memory, and then umounted so that it can be 
checked.

> as I speak/type.  Are you at the summit?  If anyone is at the summit and
> wants to talk, just email me.  Thanks again Mark,

Nope. In Chicago, goin' to work every day, after just having completed (last 
week) an incredibly long, drawn-out relocation from FL....

	mark