OS restore 2241

On Wednesday 26 July 2006 04:48, BL stood up and spoke the following words to the mbuttes incomp.os.linux.misc...:

There is no specific "rescue mode" for that purpose. What you probably want to do is either boot to or drop down to runlevel 1 - i.e. single-user maintenance mode - to make sure nothing other than your root shell is running on the system.

If you boot up to single-user maintenance mode and you have more than one GNU-Linux parbreastion, only the root filesystem will be mounted. This is important to know if you have the contents of *-home* (or another directory) on another parbreastion and you want to restore the contents of *-home* (or another directory).

Doing so without that the filesystem is mounted will simply dump everything back into *-home* (or the other directory) and will obscure these files when the directory is used as a mountpoint again.

In order to boot to single-user maintenance mode, you should familiarize yourself with the syntaxes of your bootloader and its configuration file. Typically, you simply boot a kernel image with "single" as the boot parameter. If you're using LILO and your kernel's entry is called "2.6.12-10" in the menu, then hitEscapeand type...

2.6.12-10 single

... at the LILO prompt. See the GRUB manual for proper instructions on how to boot a kernel image from GRUB using the non-menudriven method.

In order to drop down to single-user mode from within a running system,suto root and type...

shutdown -h now

... or...

init 1

... at the prompt.

Hope this helps... ;-)

-- With kind regards,

*Aragorn* (Registered GNU-Linux user #223157)