Boot to a boot disk.. anything... CD, DVD, USB
Load up vi - you can probably do this from a live linux distro.
Unedit the line.
Save.
Quit.
Reboot.
You're golden.
On May 6, 2011, at 9:06 PM, Henry Olyer wrote:
> Woe is me.
>
> First, I simply messed up, happens to us all from time to time. I lost
> power on an laptop running 8.2.
>
> Restarted it but for some reason the fsck didn't run and I lost some /usr
> files.
>
> I tried to do an fsck manually but because it's mounted I got nowhere. So I
> put a comment ("#") in front of the /usr line for the /etc/fstab file.
>
> Now, I can't boot.
>
> I need what's on my disk -- of course!
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