Re: Can't rescue, read-only filesystem

["Oliver Elphick" <olly@lfix.co.uk>]

Morgan Fletcher wrote:
  >>   boot: rescue root=/dev/hda3 init=/bin/sh
  >> 
  >> This will put you straight into a shell, with no other utilities running.
  >
  >Unfortunately, the same thing happens. It is as if the init=/bin/sh
  >argument is ignored. 

In that case you need to boot from an installation disk as though you were
going to install from scratch.

Go through the initial stages: select colour, keyboard
Do not let the installation partition your disk, instead mount the
existing partitions.

Once you have got that far, switch to /dev/tty2 (Alt + F2) and do this

# cd /target            (or maybe /mnt  --  i can't check that at the moment)

# ls should show you the contents of your root partition on the hard disk

# sbin/lilo -r /target

go back to screen 1 and choose reboot
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