Tom wrote:
While it is a hair misleading, entering the root password at this point gets you to your system.
No, it does not. You get dropped to a promt, I don't know which 'init-level' its on, but it generally does not get you to your system like a normal boot.
Single user is the init level your on
Also, to shut off automatic fsck at boot. From `man fsck`: Filesystems with a fs_passno value of 0 are skipped and are not checked at all.
I don't want to turn off the automatic check, I just think(among a few other things) that this test should be easily skip-able. The startup-script behaves very 'dumbly ' at said point, IMHO.
I neither know enough to 'fix' this kind of thing myself, nor do I really have the time. I know very well that this is a community distro, and that its wrong to rant, but I did put it in '**' ;)
Also I don't agree that it is right to be silent (not file bug reports) just for the sake of 'politeness'