On Mon, 27 May 2002, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 00:10 27 May 2002, Bret Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | On Sun, 2002-05-26 at 21:51, Jianping Zhu wrote: > | > my redhat 7.1 kernel is having trouble, I can only boot into repair > | > filesystem, I belive in order for the system to work porperly i have to > | > change something in etc/fatab (I commented the / directory mistakenly) > | > But I can change it bucause the repair file system is read only. > | > How can i get out of this dillema? > | > | Directly from the archives (searched on remount writable) > | > | >From the esteemed Mikkel Ellertson > | You can remount a file system mounted read-only with the command > | "mount -o remount,rw <mount point>" > > However, note that you SHOULD NOT do this until you have repaired it > with fsck. Using a damage filesystem is generally an excellent way to > do more damage. > > Supposing your root filesystem to be from the partition > /dev/hda2 you would say: > > fsck -y /dev/hda2 > > Frankly, after this I reboot. The system should come up clean next time. > Then the / partition will probably be mounted read/write anyway, and if > not (because of your change to /etc/fstab maybe?), _then_ you can do the > "mount -o remount,rw /" thing, knowing that the filesystem itself is ok.
in situations like this, i would back off completely from booting off of the hard drive and boot in "linux rescue" mode from the first installation CD. (refresh my memory -- did 7.1 have a bootable rescue CD?) rday _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
