Olivier Berger <olivier.ber...@telecom-sudparis.eu> writes: > I had the impression that the "recovery mode" default grub entry was > meant for booting with read-only, but can't manage to spot > documentation.
Historically, I'm pretty sure it's just a way to boot single-user, often without spawning getty and so forth and instead using a simpler root password verification mechanism. Linux traditionally brings up more services in single user than, say, Solaris (such as networking), but I think even Solaris didn't keep the root partition read-only when booting single-user. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/87mwaw35su....@hope.eyrie.org
