Re: booting single, writable?
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?
mount -n -o remount,rw /
The "-n" tells mount to avoid updated /etc/mtab, since it is (in this
case) currently read only. I think you can guess what the other options
do.
:
: Thank You
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