I believe the "1" referred to is another way of saying "single" which will do what is being described. Mathew Snyder Systems Administrator Network+ ServerVault TechOps Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > 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
