Robert Nichols wrote: > Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: >> Mathew Snyder wrote: >> >>> I believe the "1" referred to is another way of saying "single" which >>> will do what is being described. >>> >> >> I think you had better try it. On my FC5 system, booting into the >> single user mode (run level 1) still mounts all local file systems. >> So if you need to edit /etc/fstab to get the system to boot, you are >> not going to be able to do it. This is because when booting to any >> run level, /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit is run before the run level specific >> stuff, and this is where the local file systems are mounted. > > What you need is "emergency" mode. That will give you a shell, and > with the root filesystem mounted read-only. Nothing else besides > the pseudo-fileystems (/dev, /sys, /proc) will be mounted. In > order to edit /etc/fstab you'll have to remount the root filesystem > read-write, and if your favorite editor resides in /usr/bin and /usr > is a separate filesystem, then you'll need to mount /usr too. > I usually just edit the boot line to remove the RO and add init=/bin/bash. That skips init completely, and puts me at the command prompt as root. From there you can mount /usr if necessary, and the root file file system is already mount RW. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
