F9: fsck gotcha on booting

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 20:47 -0700, Andrew Farris wrote:
> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 20:32 -0700, Andrew Farris wrote:
> >> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> >>> My fstab contains the line:
> >>>
> >>> LABEL=/xtra             /xtra                   ext3    defaults        1 2
> >>>
> >>> which worked fine on F8. Now with F9-Preview the boot process halts with
> >>> the following error (I'm working form memory here):
> >>>
> >>> 	Fsck: cannot resolve "LABEL=/xtra"
> >>>
> >>> and drops me to a Shell to fix the problem. Two things:
> >>>
> >>> 1) From the Shell I can happily "mount /xtra" with no problems, so what
> >>> gives?
> >>>
> >>> 2) I can't edit /etc/fstab from this Shell. "mount" claims that the
> >>> system disk is mounted rw. but when I try to edit fstab "vi" tells me
> >>> it's read-only, and in fact "> foo" from the Shell gives the same error.
> >>> So I feel I have to ask why is the emergency Shell set up to not let me
> >>> edit anything?
> >> Did you try editing then using w! to save it?  That may have worked.
> > 
> > Of course. It didn't. w! is fine if it's just a write-protected file.
> > This was a read-only filesystem.
> 
> Ok just wanted to check, so apparently it didn't remount the filesystem rw, was 
> there a message about filesystem badness before it started to fsck or what?

No, nothing. I edited fstab via the rescue disk and it reboots with no
issues whatever. Of course I then have to remember to mount the disk
manually.

> You probably better turn off the 'quiet' boot flag so you can see what is going 
> on there in the kernel messages.

I'll try that, thanks.

poc