f8 boots!

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 18 December 2007, Tim wrote:
>On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 12:23 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> I'm reticent to attempt editing fstab until I know it works as I had a
>> heck of a time recovering from a one character typu in that once
>> before, it will not skip a bad line and proceed with the rest of the
>> configuration.  Any error there appears to be fatal.
>
>I hadn't noticed that before.  But you can always put your mount points
>after the system ones.  And you can manually mount things through a CLI
>if you need to.
>
That's what I did, all after the system mounts but I called the 
partition 'amandatapes' in the label, then specified LABEL=/amandatapes in 
the fstab.  ooops.  And I can never remember the -o option to mount.  I fixed 
it by changing the label with tune2fs.

Seriously, whatever script processes the fstab and assembles the system, needs 
a new keyword, one that can be added below the must have parts of the system 
and that tells this script to report on screen but otherwise ignore such typu 
foolishness in non-vital, 100% optional portions of the system. Skipping the 
erroneous mount operation is much preferable in such a case. 

That would save old dummies like me from thinking they might have to reinstall 
just to fix a one char typo.  And wasting a boatload of everybodies time 
trying to figure out just what the hell did that old fart do now?  :)

Thanks Tim.

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