On Thursday 13 January 2005 12:09 am, Collins Richey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 04:36:18 +0100, Sven Köhler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hi, > > > > it seems that the rootfs (a reiserfs) is damanged. > > > > - how can i tell gentoo to do a real complete check of the rootfs at > > startup (where the rootfs should be read-only mounted) > > - how can i do that via ssh on a running system > > - which paramters can i pass when booting gentoo, so that it boots > > into maintainance mode where the rootfs is still mounted read-only? > > Answer to both questions: you can't do this booted from your gentoo > system (standard *nix problem - checking a fs requires read only mode, > but root fs is r/w when booted.)
You can try rabidly pressing ^C while the system is initalizing, to dump you to an command prompt with / mounted ro, but no guarantees as to how useful that prompt is. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
