Re: [foxboro] abnormal boots

Stan,

I don't think that /opt gets mounted until later in the boot process
(could be wrong though).

Cheers,

Kevin

On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 9:15 PM, stan <stanb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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