Booting Into Emergency Mode - Red Hat ENTERPRISE LINUX 4 System Administration Manual

Booting into Emergency Mode

3. Go to the end of the line and type single as a separate word (press the Spacebar and then
type single). Press Enter to exit edit mode.
5.4. Booting into Emergency Mode
In emergency mode, you are booted into the most minimal environment possible. The root file system
is mounted read-only and almost nothing is set up. The main advantage of emergency mode over
single-user mode is that the init files are not loaded. If init is corrupted or not working, you can still
mount file systems to recover data that could be lost during a re-installation.
To boot into emergency mode, use the same method as described for single-user mode in
Section 5.3, "Booting into Single-User Mode"
with one exception, replace the keyword single with
the keyword emergency.
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