From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jan 10 09:21:41 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA13686 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 09:21:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lor.watermarkgroup.com (lor.watermarkgroup.com [207.202.73.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA13676 for ; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 09:21:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from luoqi@watermarkgroup.com) Received: (from luoqi@localhost) by lor.watermarkgroup.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA06656; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 12:20:40 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from luoqi) Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 12:20:40 -0500 (EST) From: Luoqi Chen Message-Id: <199901101720.MAA06656@lor.watermarkgroup.com> To: asmodai@wxs.nl, bright@hotjobs.com Subject: Re: boot single with new loader? Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, dillon@apollo.backplane.com, jake@checker.org, mike@smith.net.au Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Luoqi: i haven't looked at your utility, but it seems that it does a > remount, why is it nessesary to go to single user mode then? > It reloads the root FS much the same way fsck does after it modifies on-disk data structures, it is necessary to have root mounted readonly, AFAIK boot into single user mode is the only way to achieve this. -lq > -Alfred > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message