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Date:      Sun, 10 Jan 1999 12:20:40 -0500 (EST)
From:      Luoqi Chen <luoqi@watermarkgroup.com>
To:        asmodai@wxs.nl, bright@hotjobs.com
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG, dillon@apollo.backplane.com, jake@checker.org, mike@smith.net.au
Subject:   Re: boot single with new loader?
Message-ID:  <199901101720.MAA06656@lor.watermarkgroup.com>

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> 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
> 

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