On Sunday 21 August 2005 08:09 pm, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I just finished config'ing my new 2.6.8 kernel (debian, not vanilla) form > > 2.4 (both Sarge) and am ready to boot to it but due to my SATA hard drive > > I will need to change my boot and /etc/fstab (from here on referred to as > > FSTAB) entries from hd* to sd*. I have no problem doing it in grub but > > when it comes to FSTAB I have some reluctance. Does anybody know a way > > for me to recover and be able to boot into the system for me to fix the > > FSTAB file if, for some reason, the system still won't boot? > > > > This is my only computer system, and only Operating System, that I have > > over here (living in Korea). So if I lose my system it will be a problem > > for me. Would a rescue floppy/CD be an answer? Would the rescue mode of > > grub allow me to get to a prompt to manually mount my partitons and than > > fix FSTAB? > > Get the Knoppic CD. > > You mess up fstab. The system is unbootable. > > You boot from the Knoppix CD. Fix fstab. Done. > > H Thanks. I tried Knoppix before I made the changes, just to be sure, and it worked flawlessly. Gotta love those LiveCD's.
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