Re: Does "recovery mode" imply read-only filesystem ?
Olivier Berger <olivier.berger@telecom-sudparis.eu> writes:
> I had the impression that the "recovery mode" default grub entry was
> meant for booting with read-only, but can't manage to spot
> documentation.
Historically, I'm pretty sure it's just a way to boot single-user, often
without spawning getty and so forth and instead using a simpler root
password verification mechanism. Linux traditionally brings up more
services in single user than, say, Solaris (such as networking), but I
think even Solaris didn't keep the root partition read-only when booting
single-user.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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