>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