On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 11:54:06AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > On Fri, 14 Aug 2015 22:25:06 -0700 > Isaac Dunham <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 07:01:11AM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > > > The aim is to boot to a console prompt, log in as root, install > > > xorg and fluxbox. That gives me X and a window manager but no > > > desktop environment. At present I get a log in prompt and can log > > > in as user in console, but for some reason root log in not working. > > > I suppose that when I provided a password I mistyped. > > > > At the grub menu, edit the kernel commandline to change > > "root=... ro ..." to "root=... rw ... init=/bin/bash" > > > > Then run "passwd", sync a couple times, and reboot. > > > > HTH, > > Isaac Dunham > > Why change ro to rw?
"root=/dev/sda6 ro" means that when initrd (or the kernel) mounts /dev/sda6, it mounts it read-only (ro). Then the initscripts run fsck, and remount '/' as read-write (rw). So if you don't change it to "rw", you will need to manually remount / so that it's writeable; I think this would be one way to do so: mount -o remount,rw / HTH, Isaac Dunham _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
