i had made a change to /etc/mtab on my laptop (i added a default group setting to the mounting of a vfat partition), and stupidly didn't test it before rebooting. now my laptop stops, when booting, at "remounting root filesystem in read-write mode." is there some way i can make the laptop bootable? i really don't want to have to reinstall. i'm using RH 6.1 & kernel 2.2.12-20smp more info available on request when i boot off the RH cdrom, and enter "rescue" mode, it bails saying it can't boot off /dev/hda1. (my bootable partition is /dev/hda2). in the hopes of mounting hda2 manually from a ramdisk partition so that i could re-edit /etc/mtab, i've tried making a root floppy to boot from, on another machine. but my other linux machine doesn't have ramdisk support or loopback compiled into it to write out a filesystem. (i'd prefer not to have to recompile the kernel on another machine just to fix it, but if i have to, then i will). thanks. ed
