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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Bjørn Forsman <[email protected]> Date: 11 June 2015 at 20:36 Subject: Re: [Nix-dev] Single user mode To: stewart mackenzie <[email protected]> On 11 June 2015 at 19:12, stewart mackenzie <[email protected]> wrote: > So I've got a corrupted harddisk sector that needs a fsck.ext4 run. > > It disturbs my bootup flow nagging me of this fact. > > I'm unable to umount /nix/store so I need to boot into single user mode. > Pressing 'e' during bootup then typing 'single' into the line that starts > with 'linux' doesn't solve it. Typing 'init 1' also doesn't solve it as I'm > immediately presented with X11 login prompt. > > How does one enter rescue mode on nix? I think it's answered here: http://nixos.org/nixos/manual/ch-troubleshooting.html#sec-boot-problems (Add 'single' to the kernel command line.) - Bjørn _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
