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

1999-03-03 Thread Bob Nielsen
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

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

1999-03-02 Thread rich
>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

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

1999-03-02 Thread Bob Nielsen
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 On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Rich Hartman wrote: > Hello, > > I was messing around w/ FSTAB, and apparently era

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

1999-03-02 Thread Oliver Elphick
"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 sing

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

1999-03-02 Thread Rich Hartman
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