Hi,
I happen to find an interesting thing: if I add "init=/bin/bash" to the kernel boot parameter, then Fedora Core 1 quickly boots to command line bash, no GUI starts. And / is read only. And I works in single user environment.
Then I tried changing the parameter to "init=/bin/bash, rw", but this time the boot is like normal way, GUI starts, I am asked to log in, etc.
I wonder why it has so big difference with and without "rw"?
Thanks.
It probably booted normally because what you had appended to the boot prompt was invalid. I don't think that having a space in there is legal.
To mount a / partition rw, do the following:
boot ... ... init=/bin/sh mount /proc mount -o remount,rw /
If you have multiple filesystems that need to be written to, repeat that last command on their mountpoints.
Hope that helps -dant
