Re: grub question read-only

["michael" <michael@estone.ca>]

On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 13:42:16 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote
> On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 01:17:28PM -0700, michael wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > 
> > What would I do if I actually wanted to boot and have my
> > system / mounted read only?
> 
> when / is remounted, the flags in /etc/fstab are used, so to have /
> finish up mounted ro, you have to set it up so in the fstab.
> 

I ended up booting to single mode.
(typed in root password for command line)

# init 1
# mount -o remount,ro /

This seemed to work. Thanks