In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jim Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm not using LILO and boot into Linux from a config.sys menu option >under Win95. I use loadlin to boot Linux. I needed to do some >maintenance the other day and found that booting single from a running >system doesn't work very well. It keeps /usr mounted because it doesn't >kill off the process using /usr, I guess.
Perhaps you used the wrong way to go to single user mode. The only correct way to switch to single user from multi user is: shutdown now [Note the omission of the -r/-h option!]. >Anyway then I set out to try >to boot single user from loadlin.exe. I didn't know what to put. I >tried loadlin vmlinux root=/dev/hdb1 ro single, but that didn't seem to >work. Can someone enlighten me? Can't help you with that one. Mike. -- Indifference will certainly be the downfall of mankind, but who cares?