Re: How to boot single user with loadlin?
- Received message begins Here - Perhaps you used the wrong way to go to single user mode. The only correct way to switch to single user from multi user is: shutdown now I used init s. I thought that was the same. Thanks for the tip, I'll try that. Jim. To see my .signature file, go to http://reality.sgi.com/jwl/signature/
How to boot single user with loadlin?
I'm not using LILO and boot into Linux from a config.sys menu option under Win95. I use loadlin to boot Linux. I needed to do some maintenance the other day and found that booting single from a running system doesn't work very well. It keeps /usr mounted because it doesn't kill off the process using /usr, I guess. Anyway then I set out to try to boot single user from loadlin.exe. I didn't know what to put. I tried loadlin vmlinux root=/dev/hdb1 ro single, but that didn't seem to work. Can someone enlighten me? I looked in the docs, but I guess I didn't find the right one. Thanks, Jim. -- To see my .signature file, go to http://reality.sgi.com/jwl
Re: How to boot single user with loadlin?
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jim Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not using LILO and boot into Linux from a config.sys menu option under Win95. I use loadlin to boot Linux. I needed to do some maintenance the other day and found that booting single from a running system doesn't work very well. It keeps /usr mounted because it doesn't kill off the process using /usr, I guess. Perhaps you used the wrong way to go to single user mode. The only correct way to switch to single user from multi user is: shutdown now [Note the omission of the -r/-h option!]. Anyway then I set out to try to boot single user from loadlin.exe. I didn't know what to put. I tried loadlin vmlinux root=/dev/hdb1 ro single, but that didn't seem to work. Can someone enlighten me? Can't help you with that one. Mike. -- Indifference will certainly be the downfall of mankind, but who cares?
Re: How to boot single user with loadlin?
On 22 Dec 1998, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: : In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jim Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : I'm not using LILO and boot into Linux from a config.sys menu option : under Win95. I use loadlin to boot Linux. I needed to do some : maintenance the other day and found that booting single from a running : system doesn't work very well. It keeps /usr mounted because it doesn't : kill off the process using /usr, I guess. : : Perhaps you used the wrong way to go to single user mode. The only : correct way to switch to single user from multi user is: : : shutdown now : : [Note the omission of the -r/-h option!]. However, I think this still leaves all the partitions mounted (although you ought to be able to unmount any partition at that time). If using `shutdown now' doesn't help, perhaps lsof can shed some light on the problem. -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9)
