[118] in RedHat Linux List
Re: rh 4.0
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Todd Weible)
Mon Oct 21 18:23:38 1996
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 14:33:37 -0600 (MDT)
From: Todd Weible <toddw@cyberhighway.net>
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at the boot: prompt you can type
linux mount root=/dev/???? rw
to boot your system in read-write mode if it is not being returned to rw
after fsck.
in place of ???? just put your root partition like sda1 or whatever.
It will ask if you want to do fsck anyway(even with partition in rw), tell
it no.
Todd
toddw@cyberhighway.net
> fsck. But it never remounted itself as read-write and I am unable to make any
> changes to my configuration files. Is there any way to rectify this situation
> such as using a boot disk, making the changes and then rebooting? I've tried
> a couple of different ideas but none have worked. It's not that big of a deal
> as I have the entire system backed up, but it would be nice to upgrade to a
> more recent release. Thanks.
>
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