[CentOS] System will not boot - faulty fstab?

Leonard den Ottolander leonard at den.ottolander.nl
Fri Aug 24 20:29:59 UTC 2012


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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mount -t life -o ro /dev/dna /genetic/research





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