Single boot without mounting the partitions

Ed Wilts ewilts at ewilts.org
Mon Mar 14 20:18:23 UTC 2005


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

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