[LI] X11 does not start! --> Mounting ext2fs

["Sameer D. Sahasrabuddhe" <sam_buddhe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 5 Jan 2000 K.Nikhil Shankar wrote:

>ext2fs partitions should be mounted ro as it has to go thru the fsck
Yes thats true, but only under normal operation. The problem here is that
the inittab needs to be edited under single mode. But this may not tbe
possible if the rootfs is mounted ro and not reverted to rw mode (which
generally happens in single mode). In that case theres no choice but to
mount it rw at bootprompt in single mode. This is what I had to do when my
linux box crashed due to a power failure and some config files were damaged.

Sameer.

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