Re: Can one now help?

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  On 07/18/2010 07:39 AM, Parshwa Murdia wrote:
>
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>     From: Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:vvmarko@xxxxxxxxx>>
>     To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>     <mailto:users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>     Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2010 21:43:53 +0100
>     Subject: Re: Can one now help?
>     On Saturday, July 17, 2010 21:18:47 Parshwa Murdia wrote:
>     > I have stuck in an awesome problem. Having fedora dual booted
>     with windows,
>     > i edited the /etc/fstab and /etc/sysctl.conf files, but now my
>     PC is not
>     > booting in fedora, it is only booting in windows, though it is
>     showing the
>     > option to boot from fedora, but after selecting too, it seems as
>     if it is
>     > booting from that but after some time, again it ends to the
>     symbol of
>     > fedora which appears just before the user login page. While it
>     boots from
>     > fedora, if i press, alt+tab buttons, it shows in a black screen
>     that it
>     > cann't write pid, and some other comments like line 12 / 14 / 16
>     is bad of
>     > fstab. so what i do in this scenario?
>
>     Boot from the rescue/install CD/DVD, mount the root partition and
>     revert to
>     the old fstab file from the backup.
>
>
> Please let me know how can i mount the root partition? I have booted 
> from the fedora core 11 cd and the icon 'Install to Hard Drive' is 
> there now on my desktop, but i have not clicked the same, for mounting 
> and recovering back the old one, please let me know.
>
>     Learn to use rescue mode on the install CD/DVD, or use a Live CD
>     or similar to
>     access the fstab file, and fix it or revert to the backup you made.
>
>
> Using the live CD, how can i use rescue mode? and access the old fstab 
> file? after booting from the live cd, its showing the new fstab file.
>
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>     From: JD <jd1008@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:jd1008@xxxxxxxxx>>
>     To: Community support for Fedora users
>     <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>>
>     Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2010 14:31:48 -0700
>     Subject: Re: Can one now help?
>      On 07/17/2010 01:18 PM, Parshwa Murdia wrote:
>
>     Use the install CD/DVD and select rescue mode.
>     The rescue mode will try to moun the fedora partition and will as
>     for permission to do so. Answer in the positive.
>     Then, chroot /mnt/sysimage  and fix your fstab.
>
>
> Can you please explicitly let me know what and how to do? means what i 
> did is just booted from the live cd, and now the icon of installing it 
> again to the hard drive is coming which i am not at all touching. but 
> the thing is that, how in terminal i type and what i type? to mount or 
> backing up the old one??
>
>     You might want to copy your fstab to a usb stick (in case you are
>     still unable to boot into fedora),
>     and use your windows to follow this thread and post to it your
>     fstab so we can see what wlese might be wrong.
>
>
> same thing again, using the live CD, how can i use rescue mode? and 
> access the old fstab file? after booting from the live cd, its showing 
> the new fstab file.
>
Live CD also allows you to just boot the cd without installing it.
So, do not select install. just boot it and the desktop will come up.
in desktop, open a terminal:
Click Applications -> System Tools -> Terminal

in the shell terminal, mount your fedora partition:
su -
No password needed. just press enter.
mkdir /mydisk
mount /dev/sdXN /mydisk

where X is the drive letter and N is the partition number (starts at 1) 
where you installed fedora.

Now cd to your /etc and edit fstab and fix the problem.

If you do not know how to do that, post the contents of your fstab to 
this list
and I am certain someone will tell you what is wrong.


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