Try rebooting with the cd again and then at the prompt where you normally put: linux rescue try the following instead linux rescue root=/dev/hda2 -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Pete Nesbitt Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 3:16 PM To: Dave Martini 1; redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Linux Rescue Mode Help On December 28, 2004 01:59 pm, Dave Martini 1 wrote: > Yeah I told it to boot in read/write mode but it doesn't ever > mount my / partition on /tmp/sysimage I guess because I've commented > it out in /etc/fstab. > It's defined /as /dev/hda2 but I can't seem to figure out how > to mount it on /tmp/sysimage within rescue mode. > > Dave. > > > From: Pete Nesbitt <pete@xxxxxxxxx> > > To: Dave Martini 1 <martini@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, General Red Hat Linux > > discussion > > list <redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > Subject: Re: Linux Rescue Mode Help > > Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 12:16:50 -0800 > > User-Agent: KMail/1.7.1 > > MIME-Version: 1.0 > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > Content-Disposition: inline > > X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 > > > > On December 28, 2004 11:49 am, Dave Martini 1 wrote: > > > I commented out the /etc/fstab file entry for / and > > > want to know how to fix this. > > > I tried to boot from CD #1 in rescue mode but the file system > > > is read only and won't let me edit the /etc/fstab file. > > > > > > I also tried booting in emergency mode and S mode and > > > since / is commented out in /etc/fstab it doesn't show up. > > > > > > Is there anyway I can fix this? > > > > > > Thank You. > > > David Martini > > > LLNL > > > > David, > > The rescue disk should give you the option to mount /tmp/sysimage as > > read/write. > > > > Or, if it isn't working, post the RH version and disk information > > (scsi?). -- > > Pete Nesbitt, rhce David, there is something else going on here because when a rescue disk mounts your local disk it does not use /fstab from the to-be-mounted disk. So if you let rescue mount the drive as read-only it mounts ok? Try mounting it as read-only, then run fdisk to confirm the device & fs type. When you tell it to mount as read-write what happens? (what does mount show compared to in read-only?) Is the / fs ext3? -- Pete Nesbitt, rhce -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
