On 14 May 2010 01:58, Ken Moffat <zarniwhoo...@googlemail.com> 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. > > adding 'single' or '1' or 'init 1' to the end of the grub command line is > ineffective. So, for the moment that box is out of use until I can find my > rescue CD. Never had this problem with lilo, grumble, grumble :-( > Actually, I think it was a brainfart on my part - I'd been thinking that /home wouldn't be mounted in single user mode.
Found the rescue CD, ran fsck - *lots* of damage, mostly in .gconf/ .gnumeric/ and similar xml files, quite a lot ended up in lost+found. Nothing serious, but this was an ext4 filesystem that I'd converted from ext3 following the wiki - https://ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page so I'm now slightly dubious about its long-term health. My other ext4 filesystems were all created as ext4 (with a backup and restore for /home on the other box), ĸen -- After tragedy, and farce, "OMG poneys!" -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
