On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 13:33 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote: > I always keep a "single" option in my grub.conf , eg > > title Fedora (2.6.22.9-91.fc7) single > root (hd1,1) > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.22.9-91.fc7 single ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/slash > initrd /initrd-2.6.22.9-91.fc7.img > > Then if there is eg a problem in /etc/fstab > I can just boot in single mode and change it. > > I've never seen this suggested before, > but it seems quite a good idea to me? If you don't mind the security risk of anybody being able to boot that way without asking for a password, fine. You can always insert "single" by hand through the grub shell, to any grub entry, if needed. For myself, I password protect modifying boot and grub parameters, and don't have any options for booting anything other than the main hard drive without a password. So anybody wanting to mess me around is forced to open the box and remove/add a drive, or reset the BIOS. Of course that's do-able, but hard to do quickly, and without getting seen. -- (This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
