Re: Hosed fstab, won't boot how to edit?

2009-01-25 Thread Roger Heflin
Robert Moskowitz wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: Robert Moskowitz wrote: So I mistyped noatime in /etc/fstab; wished there was a way to test this first! Anyway, since this is my ASUS Eee and my swap is on the SD card, by pulling the SD card the boot halts and puts me into Repair Filesystem mode

Re: Hosed fstab, won't boot how to edit?

2009-01-24 Thread Robert Moskowitz
john wendel wrote: Robert Moskowitz wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: Robert Moskowitz wrote: So I mistyped noatime in /etc/fstab; wished there was a way to test this first! Anyway, since this is my ASUS Eee and my swap is on the SD card, by pulling the SD card the boot halts and puts me into Rep

Re: Hosed fstab, won't boot how to edit?

2009-01-24 Thread john wendel
Robert Moskowitz wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: Robert Moskowitz wrote: So I mistyped noatime in /etc/fstab; wished there was a way to test this first! Anyway, since this is my ASUS Eee and my swap is on the SD card, by pulling the SD card the boot halts and puts me into Repair Filesystem mode

Re: Hosed fstab, won't boot how to edit?

2009-01-24 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Bill Davidsen wrote: Robert Moskowitz wrote: So I mistyped noatime in /etc/fstab; wished there was a way to test this first! Anyway, since this is my ASUS Eee and my swap is on the SD card, by pulling the SD card the boot halts and puts me into Repair Filesystem mode. Thing is /etx fstab i

Re: Hosed fstab, won't boot how to edit?

2009-01-24 Thread Bill Davidsen
Robert Moskowitz wrote: So I mistyped noatime in /etc/fstab; wished there was a way to test this first! Anyway, since this is my ASUS Eee and my swap is on the SD card, by pulling the SD card the boot halts and puts me into Repair Filesystem mode. Thing is /etx fstab is readonly. vi fstab w

Re: Hosed fstab, won't boot how to edit?

2009-01-20 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Roger Heflin wrote: Robert Moskowitz wrote: Roger Heflin wrote: On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Robert Moskowitz mount -o rw,remount / So I tried this (had a DAH moment after you posted this), but got an error: mount: / not mounted already, or bad option So I tried just 'mount' to s

Re: Hosed fstab, won't boot how to edit?

2009-01-20 Thread Roger Heflin
Robert Moskowitz wrote: Roger Heflin wrote: On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Robert Moskowitz mount -o rw,remount / So I tried this (had a DAH moment after you posted this), but got an error: mount: / not mounted already, or bad option So I tried just 'mount' to see what the status o

Re: Hosed fstab, won't boot how to edit?

2009-01-20 Thread Richard Shaw
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > Ron Siven wrote: >> >> Robert Moskowitz wrote: >>> >>> Ron Siven wrote: Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > So I mistyped noatime in /etc/fstab; wished there was a way to test > this first! > > Anyway, since this is m

Re: Hosed fstab, won't boot how to edit?

2009-01-20 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Ron Siven wrote: Robert Moskowitz wrote: Ron Siven wrote: Robert Moskowitz wrote: So I mistyped noatime in /etc/fstab; wished there was a way to test this first! Anyway, since this is my ASUS Eee and my swap is on the SD card, by pulling the SD card the boot halts and puts me into Repair F

Re: Hosed fstab, won't boot how to edit?

2009-01-20 Thread Ron Siven
Robert Moskowitz wrote: Ron Siven wrote: Robert Moskowitz wrote: So I mistyped noatime in /etc/fstab; wished there was a way to test this first! Anyway, since this is my ASUS Eee and my swap is on the SD card, by pulling the SD card the boot halts and puts me into Repair Filesystem mode.

Re: Hosed fstab, won't boot how to edit?

2009-01-20 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Ron Siven wrote: Robert Moskowitz wrote: So I mistyped noatime in /etc/fstab; wished there was a way to test this first! Anyway, since this is my ASUS Eee and my swap is on the SD card, by pulling the SD card the boot halts and puts me into Repair Filesystem mode. Thing is /etx fstab is re

Re: Hosed fstab, won't boot how to edit?

2009-01-20 Thread Ron Siven
Robert Moskowitz wrote: So I mistyped noatime in /etc/fstab; wished there was a way to test this first! Anyway, since this is my ASUS Eee and my swap is on the SD card, by pulling the SD card the boot halts and puts me into Repair Filesystem mode. Thing is /etx fstab is readonly. vi fstab

Re: Hosed fstab, won't boot how to edit?

2009-01-20 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Roger Heflin wrote: On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: So I mistyped noatime in /etc/fstab; wished there was a way to test this first! Anyway, since this is my ASUS Eee and my swap is on the SD card, by pulling the SD card the boot halts and puts me into Repair Filesys

Re: Hosed fstab, won't boot how to edit?

2009-01-20 Thread Roger Heflin
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > So I mistyped noatime in /etc/fstab; wished there was a way to test this > first! > > Anyway, since this is my ASUS Eee and my swap is on the SD card, by pulling > the SD card the boot halts and puts me into Repair Filesystem mode. > > Thi

Hosed fstab, won't boot how to edit?

2009-01-20 Thread Robert Moskowitz
So I mistyped noatime in /etc/fstab; wished there was a way to test this first! Anyway, since this is my ASUS Eee and my swap is on the SD card, by pulling the SD card the boot halts and puts me into Repair Filesystem mode. Thing is /etx fstab is readonly. vi fstab won't let me save the file