Hi gang,
In a nutshell, I have inadvertently corrupted the fstab on a new
(v4.0e) installation, by deleting the 'r' from the 'rw' in the /
entry and not noticing the error prior to a reboot.
The effect is of course to produce boot-time errors about the illegal
entry, and a read-only root file system, which cannot be forced to
remount read-write :-( I cannot find a simple path fix the problem,
and have unsuccessfully tried booting from a CD and then mounting the
partition read-write, followed by repairing the fstab entry. Compounding
the problem, the partition is an AdvFS file systems.
Does anyone know of a way to mount an AdvFS file systems read-write,
without moving the disk to another bootable system (or moving another
bootable disk to this systems,) in order to fix the damage? I would
like to recover my hours of work building this new system as efficiently
as possible.
Thanks in advance for any thoughts,
Seth Hall
Systems Manager
MIT-RLE
Received on Tue Feb 02 1999 - 16:16:11 NZDT