Thanks heaps for your help on this. The below solution worked quite well. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Airlie Sent: Saturday, 27 September 2003 12:07 PM To: Chris Barnes Cc: SLUG Subject: Re: [SLUG] trouble booting....."Mounting local filesystems"
pass init=/bin/sh to your kernel boot line (using grub or lilo) then do mount -n -o remount,rw / vi /etc/fstab mount -n -o remount,ro / Dave. On Sat, 27 Sep 2003, Chris Barnes wrote: > Hi people, > I've done something stupid to my /etc/fstab. I made some changes because > I wasn't having much luck getting supermount to work. > Anyway after a reboot, I found my system now hangs at the stage where it > says "Mounting local filesystems", and I cant find a way to bypass this. > I've left the machine for quite some time hoping it might pull through > but no luck. > > I've tried using programs for Windows to read the ext2 partition so that > I can copy /etc/fstab to windows, edit the file, and then copy it back > to the ext2 partition, but I'm not having any luck copying it back. > > I've tried booting a Slackware Linux installation cd-rom, gone to a > terminal and tried mounting /dev/hda1 to /mnt/hda1 but I get errors > telling me there's either too many filesystems mounted, theres a bad > superblock, it's the wrong fs type, etc. > > So can anyone think of any other ways I could fix the problem? > I'm using Mandrake 9.1 by the way. > > Thanks very much, > > Chris Barnes. > -- David Airlie, Software Engineer http://www.skynet.ie/~airlied / [EMAIL PROTECTED] pam_smb / Linux DECstation / Linux VAX / ILUG person -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
