Hi,
if you cant get to another x-session with ctrl-alt f2 etc ...
this may also help - I've used it to rescue my system on occasion.
Get a mini linux distribution like tomsrtbt (www.toms.net/rb) build it on
another machine.
Boot your system with this distribution installed on a floppy (boot from
About problems with modifing mtab I did a simple solution. I had a problem for
modifing the mtab file the file that you NEVER have to touch. I modified it, and
when I tried to reboot my linux box but unfortunately when the boot hangs on:
Setting /boot/System.map to the current running kernel
On Mon, Mar 27, 2000 at 11:36:17PM -0500, Brian T. Schellenberger wrote:
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- First, there's no need to modify mtab; that's the current state of the
- system. You only need to modify fstab.
-
- By the same token, the empty mtab is just empty 'cause the mount fails,
- but you already knew that;
Charles Curley wrote:
On Mon, Mar 27, 2000 at 11:36:17PM -0500, Brian T. Schellenberger wrote:
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- First, there's no need to modify mtab; that's the current state of the
- system. You only need to modify fstab.
-
- By the same token, the empty mtab is just empty 'cause the mount fails,
Well, you know already that you should never, ever be without a rescue
disk.
That said, just start and install in and use ALT-F2 (or F3, or F4) to go
to another terminal window. You should be able to patch up things from
there.
(At least this trick works with RedHat; I assume it will with
Thanks for the reply. I was beginning to think that there was no one out
there.
Actually, I dropped one back to v6.1 for the rescue disk. Unfortunately I
can't out just what I have to fix.
At 03:00 PM 03/27/2000 -0500, you wrote:
Well, you know already that you should never, ever be without
Mandrake Helios. This morning I did something really dumb. I had the
following (part of the partitions):
/dev/hdb7 / ext2defaults
/dev/hdc10 /Venus ext2 exec,dev,suid,rw 1 1
/dev/hdc11 /programs ext2 exec,dev,suid,rw 1 1
where Venus was
