On 09/11/12 14:23, Felix Miata wrote:
On 2012-11-09 13:49 (GMT+1100) Basil Chupin composed:
With grub it was a simple matter of typing in "init 1" at the grub menu when booting the computer and one was taken to level 1 of the system. Now with this "progression" (!?) to grub2 this is longer can be done.
I need to get to level 1 to be able to run e2fsck to check the file system (ext4).
Did you try single instead of 1? Or, is the problem you can't find how to modify a Grub2 stanza cmdline? I'm just asking. All my openSUSEs use Grub Legacy, including 12.3M1.
Not sure how to answer your questions, Felix..... I cannot alter the "Grub2 stanza.." 'cause I cannot see it. I thought that by pressing SHIFT when grub was about to come on-screen that I would get what appeared in grub but this did not happen. Trying "single"? Where or how? When the system is running I can go to a terminal, become root, type "init 1" and get to level 1. But then when I try to remount the root partition as 'ro' [read only] I get the response that this cannot be done because "/" is busy. It was all so easy under grub. Now I think that the only way is to use SystemRescueCD -- which I just downloaded (latest version 3.1.1). Let's see what happens with this aid.... BC -- Using openSUSE 12.2 x86_64 KDE 4.9.3 & kernel 3.6.5-1 on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel Corsair "Vengeance" RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX550Ti 1GB DDR5 GPU -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org