Re: bad blocks and rebooting

From: Bernd Eckenfels (ecki@lina.inka.de)
Date: Thu Oct 04 2001 - 18:24:12 EST


In article <20011003134423.A28512@home.com> you wrote:
> I have a system setup as a black box. If the system is powered
> off accidentally, and upon powering on the system keeps rebooting
> after trying to do the file system consistency check. The file
> system message is to run "ef2fsck -v -y <partition>. Is there
> anyway to force this check at lilo prompt?

You can modify the init scripts to search for an init arg. Most init scripts
check for /forchecheck. For an embedded box it is MUCH better to have the
filesystem readonly or at least use a journaled FS.

Greetings
Bernd
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