Re: How to boot single user with loadlin?
On 22 Dec 1998, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
: 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!].
However, I think this still leaves all the partitions mounted (although
you ought to be able to unmount any partition at that time).
If using `shutdown now' doesn't help, perhaps lsof can shed some light
on the problem.
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