Good, you are in Single user mode. To mount your filesystem read-write.
mount -o remount,rw /
Then you can mount any of your other partitions, and running bash should
give you a prompt and environment you're familiar with.
Then to start "network services" run this.
/etc/rc.d/init.d/network start
Anything else?
On Sat, 4 Nov 2000, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
> Hello !
> On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 07:06:21PM +0200, zank wrote:
> > > > Proabably the simplest thing to do is that: take your installation
> > > > media and start from milo like for an installation/update. In a
> > short
> > > > while you will get a shell on the second console (Alt-F2) and a
> > bunch
> > > > of basic tools like 'mount' and 'fdisk' and few more.
> > unfortunately it does NOT open the second console, only 3rd and 4th one.
> > (!?)
> >
> > - nevertheless, i managed to boot into single user mode.
> > - i cannot start network services.
> > - i can't downgrade any suspected rpms in order to get the installation
> > into a consistent (original) state,
> > because / is mounted readonly.
> >
> > what should i do next? (looks pretty complicate for a newbie to fix
> > something like this.)
>
> Check if your tools are really not there, they might not be in your
> path so something like
> cd ../bin
> or
> cd ../sbin
> might get you there. Once you have mount, you can remount your root
> partition read write.
>
> Regards
>
> Helge
>
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