I am reopening this bug because the boot proccess shouldn't stop without an error message. When the partition in /etc/fstab is absent boot proccess doesn't stop when fsck is off. So it shouldn't stop if fsck is on. Security team members can unsubscribe from this bug. But I think that hard disk failure should not gain root access so easily.
** Changed in: sysvinit (Ubuntu) Status: Rejected => Unconfirmed -- boot stops if partition absent https://launchpad.net/bugs/66394 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs