Ken Heard wrote: ...
I first tried Steve Kemp's suggestion, because it was the simpler,
as it did not require use of a live CDROM. He warned me that the
command "mount -n -o remount,rw /" might not work. It didn't. It returned
EXT3-fs: Unrecognized mount option "drfaults" or missing value
mount: / not mounted already, or bad option
That looks like you mistyped "defaults" as "drfaults" in your /etc/fstab file. Daniel