What about machines which the sysadmin has only remote access to ? He will want the machine to boot into degraded mode, so services can be running until he can contact someone at the data centre to replace a disk. having it stop at a prompt in this scenario is not helpful.
What about machines which the sysadmin has only remote access to ? He will want the machine to boot into degraded mode, so services can be running until he can contact someone at the data centre to replace a disk. having it stop at a prompt in this scenario is not helpful.