On Fri, August 24, 2012 03:05, Leonard den Ottolander wrote:
Hello James,
On Thu, 2012-08-23 at 19:06 -0400, James B. Byrne wrote:
I discovered the problem with the cd-rom. It is just that, a cd-rom, and I was trying to boot from a dvd rescue disk. I have corrected that problem, edited fstab, and rebooted the system, apparently with success, so far.
On failed boot one used to be presented with a single user mode root login. Didn't the system offer you that option after failing to mount said partition? It might be you need to "escape away" the graphical boot screen to see that prompt.
It still does, and I was able to edit fstab in it. I just could not save the changes because the file system was read-only.
FYI, the interactive boot mode probably isn't very helpful in a situation like this as mounting partitions is not an option one can skip :) .
Ah well. Nothing lost then. But why does the boot loader offer the 'I' option if one cannot make use of it?
Hello James,
On Fri, 2012-08-24 at 16:14 -0400, James B. Byrne wrote:
It still does, and I was able to edit fstab in it. I just could not save the changes because the file system was read-only.
If you remount rw you should be able to save those changes.
Ah well. Nothing lost then. But why does the boot loader offer the 'I' option if one cannot make use of it?
Because it does allow you to skip the starting of services that might be causing problems. Just not the mounting of fstab entries. So it's still useful in some situations.
Regards, Leonard.
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Leonard den Ottolander