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permalink · #1 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 08:26 AM

I've been looking through the documentation, but I can't find how to have
startup not ask me for a ctrl-d or login for maintainance when the bloody
thing starts up. I've got kde, etc, working, and I don't need that
anymore.

thanks for assistance.

permalink · #2 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 08:26 AM

ray enlightened us with:
> I've been looking through the documentation, but I can't find how to
> have startup not ask me for a ctrl-d or login for maintainance when
> the bloody thing starts up. I've got kde, etc, working, and I don't
> need that anymore.

Do a filesystem check and shut down properly next time.

Sybren
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capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the
safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?

permalink · #3 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 08:26 AM

Sybren Stuvel wrote:

> ray enlightened us with:
>> I've been looking through the documentation, but I can't find how to
>> have startup not ask me for a ctrl-d or login for maintainance when
>> the bloody thing starts up. I've got kde, etc, working, and I don't
>> need that anymore.
>
> Do a filesystem check and shut down properly next time.

Furthermore replace BOOT, SWAP and ROOT with real partitions in /etc/fstab
if you forgot to do that. It's described in the handbook.

permalink · #4 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 08:26 AM

On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 05:39:03 +0200, Sybren Stuvel wrote:

> ray enlightened us with:
>> I've been looking through the documentation, but I can't find how to
>> have startup not ask me for a ctrl-d or login for maintainance when
>> the bloody thing starts up. I've got kde, etc, working, and I don't
>> need that anymore.
>
> Do a filesystem check and shut down properly next time.
>
> Sybren

1. I always shut down properly. There is no indication of any error
condition, just the message about login for maintainance or do ctrl-d.
I've not seen similar actions from other distros even on the rare occasion
that shutdown is not clean.

2. If I had known they were trying to follow MS in that regard, I might
never have started this experiment.

permalink · #5 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 08:26 AM

On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 10:36:12 +0200, Dennis Nienhüser wrote:

> Sybren Stuvel wrote:
>
>> ray enlightened us with:
>>> I've been looking through the documentation, but I can't find how to
>>> have startup not ask me for a ctrl-d or login for maintainance when
>>> the bloody thing starts up. I've got kde, etc, working, and I don't
>>> need that anymore.
>>
>> Do a filesystem check and shut down properly next time.
>
> Furthermore replace BOOT, SWAP and ROOT with real partitions in /etc/fstab
> if you forgot to do that. It's described in the handbook.

Not going to happen at this time. My drive is full of other distributions
I'm not willing to give up at this time. This was basicly an experiment to
see what performance I would see on a mini-itx box. Everything else has
gone fairly well.

permalink · #6 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 08:26 AM

So anyway, it was like, 16:48 CEST Oct 26 2004, you know? Oh, and, yeah,
ray was all like, "Dude,
> On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 10:36:12 +0200, Dennis Nienhüser wrote:

>> Furthermore replace BOOT, SWAP and ROOT with real partitions
>> in /etc/fstab if you forgot to do that. It's described in the
>> handbook.
>
> Not going to happen at this time. My drive is full of other
> distributions I'm not willing to give up at this time. This was
> basicly an experiment to see what performance I would see on a
> mini-itx box. Everything else has gone fairly well.

Uh.. what?

How /is/ your system actually set up if you can't have a correct fstab
for one of the distributions you have installed?

Be specific, please.

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permalink · #7 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 08:27 AM

ray enlightened us with:
> 2. If I had known they were trying to follow MS in that regard, I might
> never have started this experiment.

Most Linux systems ask for a Human to help them out if they can't fix
a serious filesystem error. It's just the smart thing to do. Keep your
insults about following MS to yourself please.

Sybren
--
The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a
capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the
safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?

permalink · #8 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 08:27 AM

On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 16:58:08 +0200, Johan Lindquist wrote:

> So anyway, it was like, 16:48 CEST Oct 26 2004, you know? Oh, and, yeah,
> ray was all like, "Dude,
>> On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 10:36:12 +0200, Dennis Nienhüser wrote:
>
>>> Furthermore replace BOOT, SWAP and ROOT with real partitions
>>> in /etc/fstab if you forgot to do that. It's described in the
>>> handbook.
>>
>> Not going to happen at this time. My drive is full of other
>> distributions I'm not willing to give up at this time. This was
>> basicly an experiment to see what performance I would see on a
>> mini-itx box. Everything else has gone fairly well.
>
> Uh.. what?
>
> How /is/ your system actually set up if you can't have a correct fstab
> for one of the distributions you have installed?
>
> Be specific, please.

I have a correct fstab on every distribution I run. Each one is installed
in one partition, with one common swap. I'm not going to have room for
separate boot and root partitions. I'll check the fstab and see if it's
correct, don't know why it shouldn't be.

permalink · #9 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 08:27 AM

On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 19:49:20 +0000, ray wrote:

> I've been looking through the documentation, but I can't find how to have
> startup not ask me for a ctrl-d or login for maintainance when the bloody
> thing starts up. I've got kde, etc, working, and I don't need that
> anymore.
>
> thanks for assistance.

Apologies and thanks to the respondants. I have changed fstab and it boots
cleanly now. I hadn't recently worked a distro where it was necessary to
edit fstab manually.

thanks again

permalink · #10 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 08:27 AM

ray wrote:
> ray wrote:
>
>>I've been looking through the documentation
>
> I have changed fstab and it boots cleanly now. I hadn't recently
> worked a distro where it was necessary to edit fstab manually.

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handboo...?part=1&chap=8

I think installation instructions are supposed to be read /before/
installation. :P

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