Start-up problem

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Convex · Post by **Convex** » Sat Mar 27, 2004 4:26 am

I am getting an error when I go to startup. I know how to fix it. My fstab is not correct. When I go to change it in nano, it wont let me save it. It says read only file system. I did a stage2 install. Why won't it let me save the new fstab?

ebruning · Post by **ebruning** » Sat Mar 27, 2004 4:40 am

It sounds like you need to reboot using the livecd and then mount your root filesystem and you can then edit your fstab file.

Convex · Post by **Convex** » Sat Mar 27, 2004 5:04 am

i tried doing that. LiveCD wont boot! What is the code i will need for that? I can edit my fstab fine, just need help getting to be able to edit it.

Convex · Post by **Convex** » Sat Mar 27, 2004 5:53 am

shouldn't i just be able to reboot with the livecd in and it will run from that rather than grub?

deadaim · Post by **deadaim** » Sat Mar 27, 2004 8:02 am

Well, you can't edit the /etc/fstab because you don't have "permission" to edit it. Type "su -" and enter your root password. Then try and edit it.

Convex · Post by **Convex** » Sat Mar 27, 2004 8:18 am

i wish it was that simple. i already tried logging as root, it didn't help. It is saying my root is read only. when i type mount it comes back saying

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/dev/root on / type ext3 (ro, noatime)

when i go to write using nano, it says read-only file system which is directly related to this. any other suggestions on how to fix this?

Sela_Aragon · Post by **Sela_Aragon** » Sat Mar 27, 2004 8:22 am

When you log on with the live CD are you chrooting into the Gentoo environment and Mounting Gentoo and proc?

From Live CD:

mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/gentoo
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/gentoo/boot
mount -t proc none /mnt/gentoo/proc
chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash
nano -w /etc/fstab

From here it should let you write to it I believe. From a CD prompt gentoo is perceiving you as an "outsider" maybe and isn't giving you permissions.

Convex · Post by **Convex** » Sat Mar 27, 2004 7:03 pm

okay it is solved. i had to change the boot order in my cmos. VMware doesn't boot from CD before Hard-drive. Once I got to LiveCD i was fine.