On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 02:17, Gene Heskett wrote: > There are instructions at the bottom of the grub screen, pick the > kernel you want to boot, hit the magic 'edit' key combo, then add the > word single to the end of the displayed line, and remove the 'ro' in > the middle of it and hit the enter key. This will put you in single > user mode and let you try to fix it. Gene, Actually the removal of the ro is probably redundant.... When the kernel boots, it mounts the root filesystem (normally read-only) based on the existence of the ro. This is so later, we can still do an fsck on the filesystem (cannot do it on a filesystem that is mounted rw, but can on one mounted ro). Now, the word "single", "s" or "S" as a kernel parameter gets passed to init that boots us into single user mode. Single user mode will run /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit, which will then "remount" the root filesystem read-write after checking it and should mount the rest of your filesystems after checking them also. Of course, if fsck fails, we end up getting dumped into an sulogin shell to try to repair the filesystem. Personally, I use an "a", "space", "s", "Enter" to boot myself into single user mode. --Rob
