Boot failure

[Identry]

> fsck is run when all file systems are unmounted!
>
> If you can, choose single use mode, press enter when it says something like
> "/bin/sh" (I don't remember the wordings) and then on the subsequent
> prompt,,
> # fsck -y [Press enter here]
>
> That is all you need. Once it completes, it will bring back the prompt (the
> hash prompt). If there are no major problems detected, you can simply go
> ahead and type "exit" at the prompt and press enter and see what happens.

But it doesn't boot into single user mode, so I can't just do fsck -y.
And I'm wondering if -y is too dangerous.

-- John