Single boot without mounting the partitions

[Margaret Doll]

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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