On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 12:35, Adrian Golumbovici wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to develop a driver and for now I am trying to figure out some > access values (manual doesn't exist). I already found 2 of the needed values > and it loads the module. The problem is that while I am trying to figure the > other values, sometimes I mess up and end up almost destroying my root > partition. :) I tried booting in single mode (passing single at lilo), but > no go. The / partition is still writeable... Anyway, since it is no fun to > reinstall Mandrake each time I try a new value :), maybe someone could tell > me what boot parameter should I pass to make the / partition readonly? I > tried to do a "mount -o remount,ro /dev/hda9", but it keeps saying the > /dev/hda9 is busy. Anyone any idea? I think writing "ro" as parameter in the > fstab is not such a good idea. ;) > > Best regards, > Adrian
Adrian on the above no advice... On preventing this from happening again... Take a look at UML User Mode Linux... you can run linux inside linux no emulation just Linux inside linux. It's own kernel etc. End result... if you muck up the "box" kill -9 and try again. james > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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