Try one last thing, at the prompt, type just linux or just failsafe and hit return. That about uses up my help knowledge on this subject J
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Marcia Waller
Sent: Monday, August 28, 2000 11:56 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] error on boot-up
Dear Paul, Alan, Mark, Thank you for your help. I would definitely agree
that my system is stalling as it's attempting to mount the 'root' file
system in read/write mode.
I typed the' linux single' and it made no difference. I have not found a
way to get to a console or linuxconf.
I have read and tried many things and none have worked. I suppose you have
to choose Grub at installation and it is a little late now.
The failsafe did not work with LILO that is for sure. Would I be better off
totally reinstalling Linux Mandrake 7.0? I did do the upgrade install and
that did not change anything either.
I suspect that I did something incorrectly in the fstab file since I was
working on that for the zip drive just before I had problems. I touched
nothing but the zip drive entry. I have been working on that for awhile
trying to get it to work and that never hurt anything before plus it did not
get my zip to work either:)
Thank you for your help. I may just try to start over if I can.
If I decide to reinstall how would I use grub instead?
I appreciate the help. Marcia
