On 07/18/2010 07:39 AM, Parshwa Murdia wrote: > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > 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. > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > 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. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
