Re: Locked out of system
On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 10:42, Gary L. Roach wrote:
> Well I have been known to do stupid things. This is one of them.
>
> I changed fstab to mount another drive automatically. I messed up the
> entry. Now the system boots to management level ((none) prompt) and makes
> the hard drive partitions read only.
>
> There is no text editor available to edit fstab - assuming that I can write
> to the file. How do I get out of this mess.
>
> System Pentium III dual processors
> Linux 2.4.20
> Woody 3.0
> 3 1/2 floppy drive
> SCSI CDROM (No drivers loaded until system boots)
>
> Any help will be appreciated
This is where it's nice to have a bootable rescue CD around :-).
If you have a copy of Knoppix/Gnoppix, you can boot on that, mount the
partition(s) on your hard drive, and edit to your heart's content. Of
course there are other (simpler) rescue CDs too.
Regards,
Simon
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