On Thu, August 23, 2012 18:17, James B. Byrne 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. 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. -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB at Harte-Lyne.ca Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3