I'm assuming you use lilo. when you boot up and get the lilo prompt,
type: linux single
^(or whatever you call your linux partition)
if you don't use lilo, you have to have a way to pass the message single
to init, so read the help files for whatever loader you use.
Hope this helps
Shaya
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Shaya Potter
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On Tue, 13 Aug 1996, Ken Gaugler wrote:
> Last night I tried and tried to get my system to come up in
> single user mode (so I could do some major filesystem changes).
> I couldn't get it to come up single-user. I tried booting from
> the original install boot floppy, and to my surprise it booted
> up my kernel on the hard disk?!?!?!
>
> I couldn't find the solution in the docs anywhere. Can anyone tell
> me what I should be doing?
>
> For background, I need to change the size of some partitions, so
> I need to copy whole partitions to a temporary location while I
> re-do the partition table on the target disk. I hope to avoid
> having to re-install from tape or from scratch this way.
>
> Thanks!
>
>
