Long Li <lilong76@yahoo.com.cn> [2002-08-03 13:04:21 +0800]:
 
linux init=/bin/bash
     
After I enter linux init=/bin/bash after lilo, I got a
console like this:
init-2.03#
   
Great!  You are almost there.
 
But when I edit the file /etc/passwd, systme told me:
init-2.03# ed /etc/passwd
Read-only file system.
So I can not modify that file.  How can edit that
file?
   
Normally at boot time the filesystem is mounted readonly just before
doing a file system check.  If that passes as it will normally then
the system is remounted in a read-write state.  You need to mount it
in a read-write state.  I think you can just run:
 mount -n -o remount,rw /  
That will mount it readwrite and you will be able to edit the password
file.
Bob