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Subject: Re: interactive stop on boot
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On Friday 14 March 2008 16:24:57 Jason Barnes wrote:

> Lately when it boots it runs into an NFS mounting error, claiming that
> some of my NFS-mounted drives have unexpected inconsistencies.  It
> says "unexpected error - help!" and then quits to a /bin/sh
> single-user-mode prompt.  As I am 10 miles away, this is decidedly
> unhelpful.  I don't care if it can't mount some irrelevant drive or
> not; I want it to boot up and ask me questions later.

man mount_nfs(8), specifically -R, -b, -i and -s. And indeed omit the fsck 
check as said earlier.

-- 
Mel

Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules
    and never get to the software part.