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? -- *** 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