On Sun, Dec 21, 1997 at 03:33:59PM -0800, Ken Gaugler wrote: > I got a new motherboard and CPU (triton III with a Cyrix PR200MMX) and > of course there are problems booting now. It looks to me like if I can > disable XDM, I can get a handle on fixing things up. > > However, booting from a floppy using "emergency root=/dev/hda4" I > cannot move the XDM inits because the disk is mounted read-only. > > What is the correct startup method to be able to write/change the hard > drive?
Once you are logged in with emergency, run mount -o remount,rw -n / which will remount / as read-write, and not note this (-n) in /etc/mtab, which isn't writable yet anyway. Then when you are done you should mount -o remount,ro -n / before continuing with booting (which will expect a read-only root partition so it can run fsck) or rebooting. Maybe run sync a few times for good measure too. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
