[arch-general] Startup scripts

Baho Utot baho-utot at columbus.rr.com
Fri Jan 15 17:00:50 EST 2010


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'  



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