Re: Locked out of system

2004-07-27 Thread David Baron
On Tuesday 27 July 2004 02:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > How do I get out of this mess. Boot up from a knoppix CD (or other such). In Knoppix, you type something ike boot knoppix single. This puts you in a non-password root command line shell. Manually mount the partition with fstab. Edit it.

Re: Locked out of system

2004-07-27 Thread Robert Waldner
On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 15:42:32 PDT, "Gary L. Roach" writes: >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 part

Re: Locked out of system

2004-07-26 Thread Simon Kitching
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

Re: Locked out of system

2004-07-26 Thread Kent West
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 avai

Re: Locked out of system

2004-07-26 Thread Seneca
On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 03:42:32PM -0700, Gary L. Roach wrote: > 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. You can remount partitions as read-write by