Re: how to boot single-user mode?
I'm assuming you use lilo. when you boot up and get the lilo prompt, type: linux single ^(or whatever you call your linux partition) if you don't use lilo, you have to have a way to pass the message single to init, so read the help files for whatever loader you use. Hope this helps Shaya -- Shaya Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 13 Aug 1996, Ken Gaugler wrote: Last night I tried and tried to get my system to come up in single user mode (so I could do some major filesystem changes). I couldn't get it to come up single-user. I tried booting from the original install boot floppy, and to my surprise it booted up my kernel on the hard disk?!?!?! I couldn't find the solution in the docs anywhere. Can anyone tell me what I should be doing? For background, I need to change the size of some partitions, so I need to copy whole partitions to a temporary location while I re-do the partition table on the target disk. I hope to avoid having to re-install from tape or from scratch this way. Thanks!
RE: how to boot single-user mode?
On 11:44:51 Ken Gaugler wrote: Last night I tried and tried to get my system to come up in single user mode (so I could do some major filesystem changes). Ken, I'm not certain, but you can get to it by issuing the command 'telinit 1' while logged in as root. Thats one way. For background, I need to change the size of some partitions, so I need to copy whole partitions to a temporary location while I re-do the partition table on the target disk. I hope to avoid having to re-install from tape or from scratch this way. Perhaps a suggestion for you to consider to accomplish this is using cpio. For example, the command 'find . -depth | cpio -pdmv /target_dir' will make an exact copy of a filesystem, preserving links and file access times, etc. If you execute the above from the top dir of a filesystem, it will make a duplicate at the 'target_dir'. I have used cpio like this to copy the entire root and/or /usr partitions to new locations with no problems whatsoever. Paul
Re: how to boot single-user mode?
On Aug 13, 7:44am, Ken Gaugler wrote: Subject: how to boot single-user mode? : Last night I tried and tried to get my system to come up in : single user mode (so I could do some major filesystem changes). : I couldn't get it to come up single-user. I tried booting from : the original install boot floppy, and to my surprise it booted : up my kernel on the hard disk?!?!?! -- End of excerpt from Ken Gaugler Just a quick check you can do: Go into your BIOS setup and see if the system is set to boot from C: then A:, or to ignore the floppy on boot. If so, then you need to make sure that the boot search order is A:, C:. This doesn't fix your other issue (not being able to run single-user), but it's worth checking. Chris -)- -- Christopher R. Hertel -)- University of Minnesota [EMAIL PROTECTED] Networking and Telecommunications Services
Re: how to boot single-user mode?
On Tue, 13 Aug 1996, Ken Gaugler wrote: Last night I tried and tried to get my system to come up in single user mode (so I could do some major filesystem changes). I couldn't get it to come up single-user. I tried booting from the original install boot floppy, and to my surprise it booted up my kernel on the hard disk?!?!?! linux -b or linux emergency from the LILO command prompt (assuming that the kernel image you want to load is called linux, that is...which is the case on most systems). Craig
Re: how to boot single-user mode?
Hi, I'm assuming you use lilo. when you boot up and get the lilo prompt, If you dont get the lilo prompt you need to hold down the shift-key before the kernel is loading. This will be a user option in liloconfig. BTW: instead of 'single' you can also use 'emergency' which will even skip the sysinit script (in case you have a REAL problem that you systemget stuck before it is able to enter single user mode). Greetings Bernd
how to boot single-user mode?
Last night I tried and tried to get my system to come up in single user mode (so I could do some major filesystem changes). I couldn't get it to come up single-user. I tried booting from the original install boot floppy, and to my surprise it booted up my kernel on the hard disk?!?!?! I couldn't find the solution in the docs anywhere. Can anyone tell me what I should be doing? For background, I need to change the size of some partitions, so I need to copy whole partitions to a temporary location while I re-do the partition table on the target disk. I hope to avoid having to re-install from tape or from scratch this way. Thanks!
