Bug 49131

Summary:	rescue nomount should be documented on boot disk.
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Ed McKenzie <eem12>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Brent Fox <bfox>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
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Version:	7.1
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Description Ed McKenzie 2001-07-14 22:07:20 UTC

The nomount option to 'linux rescue' should be documented on the help
screens for the bootable CD.  Nomount is the only way to rescue some systems:

- anaconda crashes if fstab isn't consistent with partitions.  I'd report a
traceback, but it reboots right away.
- rescue mounts all fses read-write, which is bad.

Comment 1 Michael Fulbright 2001-07-27 20:17:18 UTC

We are planning on prompting the user before attempting to mount the existing
installation in our next release.