Rob <spamrefuse yahoo com> wrote:<br>> Hi,<br>> <br>> By accident I have put an entry to /dev/hdb1 and /dev/hdb2 in my<br>> /etc/fstab, although there's no 2nd harddisk in my system.<br>> When I rebooted, the boot process gets stuck during or<br>> after the fsck and stops with the message to enter the<br>> root password for maintenance.<br>> When I do that, I get the prompt "(Repair filesystem)".<br>> <br>> I thought I now simply edit and correct the /etc/fstab file and<br>> reboot; but, damn, the root filesystem is mounted as readonly.<br>> Whatever I do, it remains readonly.<br><br>Found it myself: # mount -o remount,rw /<br>Then I can edit and correct /etc/fstab.<br><br>Rob.<br><br><p> 
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