[7.2] R/W mount of / denied. Filesystem not clean - run fsck.

[Helmut Schneider]

Hi,

after upgrading a few systems yesterday from 7.1-RELEASE to 7.2-RELEASE on 
one machine I got the error above. The problem was that

- I was unable to cope with it but booting from a live CD.
- the message appeared ~ 1000 times and then the kernel paniced.

After fsck'ing / with the help of the live CD I rebooted the machine but now 
I got the same problem with /home.

How can I avoid such issues (except of not letting the machine crash)? Is 
there a way to boot at least to single user mode and then run fsck (I was at 
home, far away from the machine, not funny)?

Thanks, Helmut

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