How to disable e2fsck at bootup

[colealbon]

Hi,

Here's what I want to do:
modify /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit and add the line
fastboot=yes
Can someone please translate that to Gentoo?

in this context:
http://www.akeni.com/en/support/supportcolinux.php
- I'm trying to set up colinux to use my existing Gentoo installation.
- Gentoo boots fine from Grub, but when I try to boot from colinux, I get an error that the root filesystem is corrupt. (apparently colinux/windows passes a zero file size to Gentoo)
- I've been able to track down others with the problem on different linux flavors but I don't know how to implement using gentoo's init scripts. (there's no rc.sysinit)

How

[westi]

Hi,

Looking through the files in /etc/init.d on my system it looks like the gentoo way is to create an empty file called fastboot in the root of the files system.

However the standard init scripts will delete this after skipping the fsck. So you may need to do some further patching.

The files to examine are /etc/init.d/checkroot and /etc/init.d/checkfs and /etc/init.d/halt.

e.g.