Re: Locked out of system

From: Robert Waldner (rw_at_coretec.at)
Date: 07/27/04

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Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 09:08:05 +0200

    On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 15:42:32 PDT, "Gary L. Roach" writes:
    >Well I have been known to do stupid things. This is one of them.

    ;)

    >I changed fstab to mount another drive automatically. I messed up the
    >entry. Now the system boots to management level ((none) prompt) and makes
    >the hard drive partitions read only.

    `mount -o remount,rw /` will re-mount it read/write.

    >There is no text editor available to edit fstab - assuming that I can write
    >to the file. How do I get out of this mess.

    The easiest way would be to mount /usr manually, after which you should
     have an editor to fix fstab.

    Or take the harder way or re-creating fstab: `cat <<EOF >fstab` ;)

    cheers,
    &rw 

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