Re: /dev/console..

Richard B. Johnson (root@analogic.com)
Mon, 21 Apr 1997 08:46:01 -0400 (EDT)


On Mon, 21 Apr 1997, Sameer Anja wrote:

> If it is not kernel problem then what could it be???
> Anyway, we go into single user mode for fsck, sys maintenance etc...
> It used to work before with earlier kernels.Why not now??
> -Sameer
> P.S. This happenes when fsck returns error code at boot .
>
>
> On Mon, 21 Apr 1997, Pavel Machek wrote:

[SNIPPED]

When it dumps you into single-user mode, your root file-system has
not yet been mounted R/W. After you manually run `fsck`, you must
execute: `mount -n -o remount /`

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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