[foxboro] abnormal boots

I got a call from our on call person this weekend with a really strange
situation. Seems that a "G" box running version 7 had been "rebooted"
incorrectly, by power cycling it, and when the on call person got to it he
found thta the machine was up in multi-user WO the /opt filesystem having
been mounted.

Now, I can see how this filesystem could fail fsck under these conditions,
but I can't, for the life of me, see how the machine came on up to
multi-user in this condition. I was under the impression that the machine
would stop in the boot process, and wait forever for human intervention if
fsck failed. Am I mistaken?

-- 
One of the main causes of the fall of the roman empire was that, lacking
zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C
programs.
 
 
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