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dbotos n00b
Joined: 30 Sep 2005 Posts: 13
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Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 1:25 am Post subject: new system - fstab is wrong and read-only |
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Well kick me in the crotch and call me Sally. I finally got this amd64 install done on a new Core 2 Quad machine and this crap comes up during the first bootup:
fsck.ext3: No such file or directory while trying to open /dev/ROOT
Then it says a bunch of stuff about the superblock not being able to be read and to try doing an e2fsck with an alternate superblock.
First off, that /dev/ROOT is something I've never seen before. A little search reveals /etc/fstab could have been overwritten. I logged in as root for maintenance and took a look at fstab and instead of something like:
/dev/hda1
/dev/hda3
/dev/hda2
it said:
/dev/BOOT
/dev/ROOT
/dev/SWAP
So I try to change it, but an error comes up saying the file system is read-only (the only thing marked ro in fstab is the cdrom). What is the easiest way to get this /etc/fstab fixed?
Thanks,
David |
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blubbi Guru
Joined: 27 Apr 2003 Posts: 564 Location: Halle (Saale), Germany
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Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 2:41 am Post subject: |
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Just remount your root device rw while logged in as root for maintenance.
Code: | mount -o remount,rw /dev/? / |
or boot from the LiveCD, mount your partition and change fstab.
regards
blubbi |
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nixnut Bodhisattva
Joined: 09 Apr 2004 Posts: 10974 Location: the dutch mountains
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Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 5:53 pm Post subject: |
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