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



If you proceed into the installation process, it will mount the root under
/target.  If you switch immediately to a VC and mount it manually, it will
mount it where you specify with the mount command.

Bob

On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, rich wrote:

>> 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

> 
> Thanks - that did it... although it took me a while to figure out that
> when the program mounts the FS it mounts it not under /mnt but under
> /target....
> 
> 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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