On 19/02/2010, at 1:41 PM, Daniel Pittman wrote: > Try booting the kernel with 'init=/bin/bash' on the command line, and then: > > ] mount / -o remount,rw > ] passwd root # ...and give it a good password > ] mount / -o remount,or > ] sync; sync; sync > # wait thirty seconds, because paranoia never hurts > ] sync; sync; sync; reboot > > That should get you past the problem, at least as far as the next issue.
i guess that's mount / -o remount,ro I'm curious about the order of the read-only command, and the syncs. I did assume there would be nothing to sync on a read-only file system, but I take it sync works below the file system level? -- http://chesterton.id.au/blog/ http://barrang.com.au/linux/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
