FC5 boot annoyance!

[Nathan Grennan]

Neal Becker wrote:
> I just found out that if /etc/fstab lists a partition to mount, and that
> device/partition isn't found, it will drop into filesystem repair.  Just to
> make it even more annoying, I can't fix /etc/fstab, because / is mounted
> ro, and mount -o remount,rw / doesn't work either.
>   
mount / -o remount  should work.

> IMHO, bad entries in /etc/fstab (non-root) should just cause a warning.
>   
Changing core behavior can have all kinds of unintended side effects.