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Nanne
Asked: 2011-05-20 22:20:01 +0800 CST

Don't wait for user input on errors while booting

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I'm running 11.04 server, headless, and at a certain point it didn't boot anymore: it just stopped. It seems like I made a mistake with some of the disks, the fstab or the raid config, anycase one of the arrays couldn't be mounted.

What happens is that there is some fancy screen (too fancy for my old LCD, but that's another question) saying Couldn't mount /foobar. Press s to continue or [..].

What I want is that it continues automatically. If I reboot I should check if that worked, fine, but I don't want to guess what button to press for it to continue, and I certainly don't want to have to run it with some sort of screen. Obviously, if / fails to mount then moving on is kinda hard to do. Ok. I get it, but when some raid doesn't come up, I have to boot to fix it.

How can I have ubuntu server 11.04 skip all but the fatal errors?

11.04

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  1. Best Answer

    After A LOT of looking around I came across a Ubuntu Forums question that should solve your issue;

    Fixed it by editing /etc/fstab

    Edit the line with the affected drive, and add the following option: nobootwait

    /dev/sdax /media/drive auto rw,user,exec,nobootwait 0 0

    Reference

    This will obviously only work for drive mount errors not ALL errors, I'm not certain how you could ignore all errors regardless but I would think that you would want to know what the actual error is.

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