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Single boot without mounting the partitions

Single boot without mounting the partitions

2005-03-14       - By Margaret Doll

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I
On Monday, March 14, 2005, at 03:18 PM, Ed Wilts wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 02:41:50PM -0500, Margaret Doll wrote:
> > I understand how to single boot by appended to the kernel line at boot
> > time. However single boot mounts the partitions, so I have the same
> > problem.
> >
> > How can I single boot just so that the / partition is mounted? I want
> > to take the "offending " partition out of the fstab table until I can
> > manually "fsck " it.
>
> You can boot into rescue mode. Then the system is all yours.
>
> .../Ed

Ed,

   I tried rescue mode off of RHEL 3 Disk 1, hitting F5 and then putting
in
linux rescue at the boot prompt. The system came up wanting to install.


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