[arch-general] Startup scripts

[Tom]

I was just forced to waste 10 min of my life because of arch-linux-way
'of doing things'.

*rant mode on*
Let me elaborate,
for quite some time now, I've been unappeased by the way arch-linux
handles the boot-up process, not so much by how it actually does it (it
normally gets the job done) but more the fact that there's little to no
obvious way of checking on it when things do go wrong.

I've not been able to boot my custom compiled kernels since pathes 32.2
and 32.3, I don't know why, the config is identical to my running 32.
I am at a loss. 

Anyway just now, I rebooted, tested yet another kernel,
which failed of course, just to be sat in front of my kms-enabled
high-resolution tty1 telling me that my home-partition needed checking
after 34 mounts. Nice feature, normally I wouldn't bother, but I was in
a hurry, so I hit ctrl-c, and bang 'fsck failed' - well yes it did,
because I wanted it to, - dumbass, well I go and hit 'Control-D' to
continue, and lo and behold the machine reboots, just to get on my
nerves again with the fsck the next round through. 
I accepted defeat then, and went and made myself a nice hot cup of tee,

BUT dear arch community, this is something I hate and find so wrong on
so many levels I cannot begin to describe them all, even m$ offered a
way to skip these things most of the time...)
*rant mode off*

Seriously I find the systems behaviour offensive, I should be in
control, not some half-baked script. This is exactly the same reason
that I had to sit through fsck regulary a while back(2.6.30 or 2.6.31),
because of some bug regarding ext4-partitions(the timestamp in future
error), not really because of the bug, but because of the inflexibility
of arch linux boot up scriptures.

Where to go, to file that bug...

Tom