That's why I always have a copy of tomsrtbt handy.  It's a linux
distribution that fits on one floppy and has most of the essential
drivers built-in.  Get it at www.toms.net/rb

On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Praedor Tempus wrote:

> Help me!
> 
> I have a bad rc.sysinit file and it prevents me from being
> able to bootup linux.  I have a GOOD copy of rc.sysinit 
> available but I cannot get in to replace the bad with the
> good.
> 
> Starting linux in single mode, my / directory (/dev/hda6
> on my system) is always mounted read-only mode.  A boot
> disk is useless because it still relies on the rc.sysinit
> on the harddrive.  
> 
> I need to know how to start linux in single mode with the
> root directory mounted read-write.
> 
> My mountpoints are setup as follows:
> 
> /boot
> /
> /usr
> /usr/local
> /home
> 
> I need / to mount in single mode read-write so I can replace
> my bad rc.sysinit with the good one.
> 
> praedor
> 
> 

John Kim
Linux System Engineer @ ASL - visit us at www.aslab.com


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