Re: booting single, writable?
One trick is NOT to use emergency mode.
BE CAREFUL HERE
Boot the floppy and pretend you are installing. Select the color display
and the keyboard map. When you get to the main menu, select "Mount
previously initialized linux partition" DO NOT select the option to
initialize the partition ... that will erase it! Select the root partition
and mount it as root.
Now, go to another VT with <ctrl> <alt> F2.
You will find your partition mounted read/write under /target
CD there and you should find your root filesystem. You should be able to
go into /etc and edit your init stuff using the editor provided on the
boot disk.
When done, go back to the VT with the menu. Pop the floppy out of the
drive and select "Reboot system"
On Sun, 21 Dec 1997, Ken Gaugler wrote:
> Hi Folks.
>
> I got a new motherboard and CPU (triton III with a Cyrix PR200MMX) and
> of course there are problems booting now. It looks to me like if I can
> disable XDM, I can get a handle on fixing things up.
>
> However, booting from a floppy using "emergency root=/dev/hda4" I
> cannot move the XDM inits because the disk is mounted read-only.
>
> What is the correct startup method to be able to write/change the hard
> drive?
>
> Thank You
> --
> Ken Gaugler N6OSK URL: http://www.wco.com/~keng/
> "The life of a Repo Man is ALWAYS INTENSE..."
>
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