[gentoo-server] Console access & auto ignore filesystem error at boot

[Sebastien Arnaud]

Hi,

I recently setup a few new Gentoo servers at a datacenter where we host 
all our production environment. Today, for some reason we had to hard 
reboot one of them, but it never came back up. A technician had to 
drive down to the datacenter to see that some corruption had occurred 
on the disk (reiserfs on the / mount point) and that it was waiting for 
a root password or Control D to continue.
Anyway to change this behavior to make sure that the server always 
boots and launches the SSH daemon to allow remote access to fix any 
issues?

On the same topic, does anybody know how to setup in Gentoo a console 
access through one of our serial COM ports ? I would like to be able to 
get access to the console of the Gentoo servers in case for some reason 
the server does not start properly and does not launch the SSH daemon 
for remote admin.

Thank you in advance.

Sincerely,

Sébastien