On May 14, 2010, at 12:06 AM, Bryan Kadzban wrote: > Ken Moffat wrote: >> Related question, although maybe it belongs on support - how do you >> get grub2 (1.97, if it matters) to boot in single mode? I need to >> fsck my /home partition manually (fsck'd after nn boots, came up with >> errors), and it's shared between all the systems on that box. >> >> init=/bin/bash works, but (of course) no disk devices. > > Run the bootscripts manually, up until checkfs? Dunno, but that's what > I tend to do when (say) even single-user is running scripts that break > something (like, oh, udev for instance). :-) > > Or follow Bruce's advice.
Also, if you've followed the book's instructions precisely (i.e., you've named your kernel vmlinux-...) when you run grub-mkconfig, a config file will be generated with two options based on that kernel, one being single user mode. -- JH -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
