[SOLVED] Fedora 16 always boots into emergency mode

[riddix]

Hello Boys and Girls,

i'm new to fedora and having kinda trouble getting things to work the way i like it. I made a completely fresh install of F16. Everytime i boot/reboot my PC it starts into emergency mode:

Loading Linux 3.1.0-7.fc16.x86_64
Loading initial ramdisk
Welcome to emergency mode.
Use "systemctl default" or ^D to activate default mode.
Give root password for maintenance:

I'm pressing STRG & D:

[   38.704444] systemd-fsck[872]: fsck failed with error code 8
systemd-fsck[851]: /dev/sdb1: clean, 205/29483008 files, 1908679/117902080 blocks
systemd-fsck[872]: fsck.ext4: Device or resource busy while trying to open /dev/sdc1
systemd-fsck[872]: Filesystem mounted or opened exclusively by another programm?
udevd[859]: input_id /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.2/usb8/8-1/8-1:10/input/input2'[1101] terminated by signal 15 (Terminated)
Welcome to emergency mode.
Use "systemctl default" or ^D to activate default mode.
Give root password for maintenance:

Sometimes STRG & D works sometimes not, sometimes i have to enter root pwd and then "systemctl default" works, sometimes not. (The Errors are not always the same,...)
I really dont know what to do, google was also no help.

Hope somebody knows how to solve this issue, thx rid

---------- Post added at 05:14 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:18 PM ----------

Maybe some more Info is required:

I'm using an Asus P5K3 Deluxe Mobo
4 Disks installed -> 2 of them are a RAID1 (/myFiles), the third is "/home" and "swap" the fourth "/".
I'm also using a Saitek RAT7 Mouse which dont works out of the box, i dont fixed it yet.

$ cat /etc/fstab

#
# /etc/fstab
# Created by anaconda on Sat Nov 12 16:11:28 2011
#
# Accessible filesystems, by reference, are maintained under '/dev/disk'
# See man pages fstab(5), findfs(8), mount(8) and/or blkid(8) for more info
#
UUID=3507d4fa-c925-4d09-9705-472bc2106014 /                       ext4    defaults        1 1
UUID=e0b87962-ec73-494a-996d-fa2e35dd9922 /home                   ext4    defaults        1 2
UUID=d34912a2-d8eb-45cf-b8e8-24714da010b1 /myFiles                ext4    defaults        1 2
UUID=b01436c7-2e78-4813-bca6-3f04c131f01c swap                    swap    defaults        0 0

[riddix]

Problem Solved!

I reinstalled Fedora,... before you create the partition table, the installer asks you to choose the harddisks to use. By default all disks are selected. This time i moved my Raid to the left Column (this devices will only be mounted) and voila, it works without booting into emergency mode!

[rtguille]

For me, sometimes it happens and sometimes it does not. There are no filesystems for fsck nor was the laptop
shut-down in an improper manner.
Sometimes i need to press ctrl+d for normal startup. I ignored it, since there is no apparent
problem. F16 KDE, x86_64 on a Dell e4310. The issue is not new for f16. And in my case i think that "emergency mode" is not show, i will pay more attention next time, at least to take a snapshot.

[tonthon]

I encounter a similar problem when I boot fedora 16 64 bits (with Gnome), when the

"Loading ramdisk"

message appears, it's followed by :

Use "systemctl default" or ^D to activate default mode.

I press ctrl+D and it boots fine.
I can't find any usefull informations in logs so I ask for some help here.

[chrismurphy]

Edit your /etc/default/grub so that:

GRUB_DEFAULT=0

0 means first grub entry, 1 means second, and so on. So set that to whichever one you want as the default.

An alternative is

GRUB_SAVEDEFAULT=true
GRUB_DEFAULT=saved

now when an entry is chosen in grub, it will become the new default.

After you're done changing /etc/default/grub you need to run:

grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg

---------- Post added at 03:27 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:37 PM ----------

Hmmm. The alternative is not working for me. I'm not sure why yet, but it seems grub is not saving the selections into grubenv as it remains empty and unaltered no matter what I try.