On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 20:47 -0700, Andrew Farris wrote: > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 20:32 -0700, Andrew Farris wrote: > >> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > >>> My fstab contains the line: > >>> > >>> LABEL=/xtra /xtra ext3 defaults 1 2 > >>> > >>> which worked fine on F8. Now with F9-Preview the boot process halts with > >>> the following error (I'm working form memory here): > >>> > >>> Fsck: cannot resolve "LABEL=/xtra" > >>> > >>> and drops me to a Shell to fix the problem. Two things: > >>> > >>> 1) From the Shell I can happily "mount /xtra" with no problems, so what > >>> gives? > >>> > >>> 2) I can't edit /etc/fstab from this Shell. "mount" claims that the > >>> system disk is mounted rw. but when I try to edit fstab "vi" tells me > >>> it's read-only, and in fact "> foo" from the Shell gives the same error. > >>> So I feel I have to ask why is the emergency Shell set up to not let me > >>> edit anything? > >> Did you try editing then using w! to save it? That may have worked. > > > > Of course. It didn't. w! is fine if it's just a write-protected file. > > This was a read-only filesystem. > > Ok just wanted to check, so apparently it didn't remount the filesystem rw, was > there a message about filesystem badness before it started to fsck or what? No, nothing. I edited fstab via the rescue disk and it reboots with no issues whatever. Of course I then have to remember to mount the disk manually. > You probably better turn off the 'quiet' boot flag so you can see what is going > on there in the kernel messages. I'll try that, thanks. poc -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
