On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 08:36, Chadley Wilson wrote: > Greetings, > > I have found a problem with firstboot and that is this. > My client as clever as all clients can be, for some really wierd reason, > when the firstboot screen starts, instead of clicking next they hit he > power switch. > On reboot the machine starts the chkdisk but instead of starting it in > the graphical loader it starts it on the first terminal (ctrl-alt-f1) > and whether you actually press Y to check the disk or not, the screen > stays on f1 instead of switching back to f8 so how do I make the chkdisk > run in the graphical boot loader? > to prevent this? --- Terminology first...chkdsk is a purely Microsoft tool. fsck and it's derivatives (like e2fsck) are Unix/Linux. I think the operative metaphor is that just when you think things are idiotproof, along comes a better idiot. I suppose that it would have to run fsck because there isn't a journal yet to restore and any boot errors shift the system from graphic boot to displaying the details (text screen). Of course the graphic boot is newer technology to Linux and is designed to disappear at the first sign of trouble with the boot process. I can't think of a way to prevent it from happening. Craig
