On Sun, 21 Dec 1997, Ken Gaugler wrote: : Hi Folks. : : 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?
mount -n -o remount,rw / The "-n" tells mount to avoid updated /etc/mtab, since it is (in this case) currently read only. I think you can guess what the other options do. : : Thank You : -- : Ken Gaugler N6OSK URL: http://www.wco.com/~keng/ : "The life of a Repo Man is ALWAYS INTENSE..." : -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet - 410 South Phillips Avenue - Sioux Falls, SD 57104 phone: (605) 334-4454 fax: (605) 335-1173 mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net PGP Key ID: 0xA33B86E9 - Public key available at keyservers PGP Key fingerprint: CE03 10AF 3281 1858 9D32 C2AB 936D C472 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .