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Re: Arrgh: maybe pmud-utils was a really bad idea.



On Sat, May 04, 2002 at 11:30:44PM -0300, Rog?rio Brito wrote:
> On May 04 2002, Chris Tillman wrote:
> > IOW at yaboot's boot prompt, where you normally might type 'Linux', 
> > type instead 'Linux init=/bin/sh'.
> 
> 	And don't forget to, after you remove all the files/debs, run
> 	the sync command to commit changes that you make to the
> 	filesystem before resetting/turning off your machine.

Why not just 'umount -a -r; mount / -n -o remount,ro', (which is
basically what your init scripts do during a shutdown from "normal"
system operation)?

> 	You will probably have to run fsck in the next boot also (it
> 	will run automatically probably, since the filesystem(s) will
> 	have the dirty flag set).

They'll be clean if you unmount them or mount them readonly.

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