Thanks, Sridhar! That pointed me to the correction needed... The line was:
/dev/hda1 / ext3 rw,uid=0,gid=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0 0 0 When I went to the backup file, I saw that somehow it had gotten changed from the original: /dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 I still don't know WHAT changed it, since I'm the only one that can log on to this machine (it's my personal machine). But whatever did it, believe me, I'll keep backups religiously from now on. Only took three days to get back to normal! Now if I could only get KDE3 working! <grin> On Sun, 2002-08-18 at 00:03, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > On Sat, 17 Aug 2002 17:52:26 -0600, "David A. Bartmess" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > I'm using Mandrake 8.2 with the latest updates from Mandrake Update, on a > > Athlon 900 machine with 256M RAM and PLENTY of hard drive... > > > > I'm not sure WHAT caused this, but when I boot now, the windows shows an > > error saying that '/ is mounted readonly' and some other stuff. I can't > > capture it, I can't boot into at all, it locks up after. > > > > I used the rescue option on the install CD to go into console mode, and the > > /etc/fstab file says / is to be mounted rw, under a UID and GID of 0 and 0. > > What is the /etc/fstab line for / ? > > Make sure that 'rw' is the _last_ thing mentioned in the mount options field of > the / line. Anything that comes after it can cancel it out. > > -- > Sridhar Dhanapalan > > "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling > down the highway." -- Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Computer Networks > > ---- > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- David A. Bartmess Software Configuration Manager / Sr. Software Developer eDingo Enterprises http://edingo.net But one should not forget that money can buy a bed but not sleep, finery but not beauty, a house but not a home, medicine but not health, luxuries but not culture, sex but not love, and amusements but not happiness.
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