On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 7:17 AM, James B. Byrne <byrnejb at harte-lyne.ca>wrote: > I believe that I made a boo boo recently when recovering some unused > disk space. Without going into painfully embarrassing detail I need > to delete an entry in fstab for a now non-existent logical volume. > > The system reports that the there is a bad superblock for said logical > volume. Mainly I expect because there isn't one anymore. How do I > edit fstab so as to remove the mount request? For some reason the > system will not boot from the cdrom and the I for interactive option > is just blown by when the HDD boot starts. Can you have some other rescue device besides the CD then, can you boot to USB and create a rescue disk image onto USB and then go and edit it?