Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 09:31:49 +1000 (EST) From: Q89029292 <q8902929@topaz.cqu.edu.au> Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.96.1001118091637.5274B-100000@topaz.cqu.edu.au> Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] linux single
On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, Sean Callanan wrote:
> Dear SuSE-Sparc mailing list:
>
> I had a problem yesterday with my /etc/rc.d/boot.local, which I have
> since fixed. However, I couldn't boot into multi-user mode at the time,
> since a program I was running through that was crashing the system. So I
> tried, at the SILO boot: prompt, to type
>
> SILO boot: linux single
>
> which booted into single-user mode, but with the filesystem READ-ONLY! It
> turned out that booting from the SuSE install CD-ROM, choosing "Expert
> Installation" and changing virtual terminals to a shell, mounting my root
> partition and editing the file did the trick. But it's a little disturbing
> that single-user boot would have a read-only file system.
Single user mode needs to be read only in case you need to repair the file
system.
Use the remount option under mount to remount the filesystem read-write:
mount -o remount,rw /dev/"your root partition"
Regards,
Peter Firmstone.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Sean Callanan
>
> --
> "The surest sign of intelligent life in the universe is that none of it
> has tried to contact us." -- Calvin (www.calvinandhobbes.com)
>
>
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