FC offers you a prompt to do repairs. use >mount -o rw,remount / Mounts root read/write, and you can edit the fstab. knoppix was another potential solution but fortunately it didn't come to that. phew! On 14 Jan 2007 at 1:38, Beginner wrote: > Hi Admins, > > Fedora Core 4. > > I am really stuck. > > I just upgraded the storage on my system. Everything went well but > when I rebooted there was a system panic. I've spelt the device name > wrong, I missed a single character in the dev path and now the system > won't boot. > > I have tried editing the boot command so root=rw single but still the > system won't boot and allow me to edit the fstab!! It's so > frustrating. > > Does any one have any ideas? > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html