IDE reboot after power outage problem

[Gerard Samuel]

Make sure the IDE disk entry in fstab has a "2" in the last field.
Check with the fstab man page for more details..

Alex Teslik wrote:

>Hello,
>
>My system used to be an all SCSI system. After rare power outages the system
>would automatically fsck the disks and boot up.
>Recently I added an IDE drive to the system. Now, after power outages the
>system boots and when it gets to the ide drive it prompts for single user mode
>shell. I drop into single user mode, fsck all the disks so they are marked
>clean, and reboot.
>Why is the system not automatically fsck'ing the disk on boot, and is there
>some setting I need to enable to return to the old desired behavior?
>
>Thanks,
>Alex
>