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 read only. > > There is no text editor available to edit fstab - assuming that I can write > to the file. How do I get out of this mess. > > System Pentium III dual processors > Linux 2.4.20 > Woody 3.0 > 3 1/2 floppy drive > SCSI CDROM (No drivers loaded until system boots) > > Any help will be appreciated
This is where it's nice to have a bootable rescue CD around :-). If you have a copy of Knoppix/Gnoppix, you can boot on that, mount the partition(s) on your hard drive, and edit to your heart's content. Of course there are other (simpler) rescue CDs too. Regards, Simon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
