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Re: just survived from unbootable system - what was wrong?



On Sat, Dec 21, 2002 at 12:49:47PM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote:

| and disaster struck. my system refused to give me a login prompt!! i did
| init=/bin/bash at lilo. this gave me a prompt but mounted filesystem
| readonly. how do i make it read-write?

Remount it.

# mount -o remount -o rw /

| what is wrong with the script? is there any way in which i can make num
| lock turned on on all virtual consoles?

I think Bob has nailed it.  The script didn't terminate, so the
initialization process couldn't continue.

-D

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a haughty spirit before a fall.
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