Re: what replaces "emergency"?

[Mario Klebsch]

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On Sunday, 30. September 2001 05:49, Robert Siemer wrote:
> From: Tom <address@hidden>
>
> > I had to try to repair a friend's machine last night,
> > however, and I could not (even searching the net on
> > another computer) find the equivalent to LILO's
> > "emergency" command (bring the system up in single user
> > mode, with only the root partition mounted, and that
> > mounted read only).
> >
> > It seems like grub should do that. Can someone tell me
> > how? Thanks.
>
> I don't know lilo's "emergency" command, but lilo (and grub) is not
> in the position to do want you want. Maybe lilo has some shortcuts to
> instruct the _kernel_ to do so. This is usually done via kernel
> command line arguments (you can see them in /proc/cmdline).

Tom should look into his /etc/lilo.conf. He will find an entry called
"emergency" there and he has to build the GRUBs equivalent for it.

73, Mario
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