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Re: PLEASE HELP: Can't access my system....



This is a good application for the rescue disk (of the installation floppy
set).  You can alt-F2 to get a console screen, mount the root partition to
/mnt and edit /mnt/etc/fstab with ae. 

Bob

On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Rich Hartman wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I was messing around w/ FSTAB, and apparently erased the "ro" from 
> the "defaults,errors=remount-ro" field of my root filesystem 
> entry.... Anyway, now I can't login even as root, and get all kinds 
> of boot-up errors.... 
> 
> I've tried "linux single" at LILO, and I can login, but I can't edit 
> my FSTAB file - it gives me a "read-only" error...
> 
> So how do I fix my FSTAB if "linux single" won't let me do it?
> 
> Thanks to everyone in advance!
> 
> Rich
> 
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