Re: How to boot single user with loadlin?
In article <cistron.367FAB88.A7380EC7@sgi.com>, Jim Lynch <jwl@sgi.com> wrote:
>I'm not using LILO and boot into Linux from a config.sys menu option
>under Win95. I use loadlin to boot Linux. I needed to do some
>maintenance the other day and found that booting single from a running
>system doesn't work very well. It keeps /usr mounted because it doesn't
>kill off the process using /usr, I guess.
Perhaps you used the wrong way to go to single user mode. The only
correct way to switch to single user from multi user is:
shutdown now
[Note the omission of the -r/-h option!].
>Anyway then I set out to try
>to boot single user from loadlin.exe. I didn't know what to put. I
>tried loadlin vmlinux root=/dev/hdb1 ro single, but that didn't seem to
>work. Can someone enlighten me?
Can't help you with that one.
Mike.
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