try to add the command "init=/bin/bash" on your lilo prompt after the
name of the system:
on my computer it makes:
boot: linux init=/bin/bash
then the kernel will be loaded and nothing will be started as init will
not be launched.
the system is not very usable like this (root is mounted read only)
but your separate /tmp partition should not be mounted so you will be
able to run e2fsck on it
(you might have to give the full path of e2fsck for that).
hope this helps
pascal
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 1999 6:01 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: run fsck on busy device
>
>
> After a power outage, files have been dissappearing from my
> /tmp device,
> and so I wanted to fun fsck.ext2 -c /dev/sda7 on it. To do
> this, I need
> to unmount it, but I can't unmount because the device is busy.
>
> Any way to run fsck on it?
>
> Haines Brown
>
