Ed Greshko wrote: > 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. > Correct me if I am wrong, but I though that run level 1 still ran /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit and one of the things rc.sysinit does is mount all file systems. The section that does this is: # Mount all other filesystems (except for NFS and /proc, which is already # mounted). Contrary to standard usage, # filesystems are NOT unmounted in single user mode. action $"Mounting local filesystems: " mount -a -t nonfs,nfs4,smbfs,ncpfs,cifs,gfs -O no_netdev Also note that the when the list of file system types after the -t option start with no, that it is a list of types to not mount. So between this list of file system types not to be mounted, and the -O no_netdev option, no file system that require network access should get mounted here. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
