Can one now help?

[Parshwa Murdia]

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko at gmail.com>
> To: users at lists.fedoraproject.org
> Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2010 21:43:53 +0100
> Subject: Re: Can one now help?
> On Saturday, July 17, 2010 21:18:47 Parshwa Murdia wrote:
> > I have stuck in an awesome problem. Having fedora dual booted with
> windows,
> > i edited the /etc/fstab and /etc/sysctl.conf files, but now my PC is not
> > booting in fedora, it is only booting in windows, though it is showing
> the
> > option to boot from fedora, but after selecting too, it seems as if it is
> > booting from that but after some time, again it ends to the symbol of
> > fedora which appears just before the user login page. While it boots from
> > fedora, if i press, alt+tab buttons, it shows in a black screen that it
> > cann't write pid, and some other comments like line 12 / 14 / 16 is bad
> of
> > fstab. so what i do in this scenario?
>
> Boot from the rescue/install CD/DVD, mount the root partition and revert to
> the old fstab file from the backup.
>

Please let me know how can i mount the root partition? I have booted from
the fedora core 11 cd and the icon 'Install to Hard Drive' is there now on
my desktop, but i have not clicked the same, for mounting and recovering
back the old one, please let me know.

Learn to use rescue mode on the install CD/DVD, or use a Live CD or similar
> to
> access the fstab file, and fix it or revert to the backup you made.
>

Using the live CD, how can i use rescue mode? and access the old fstab file?
after booting from the live cd, its showing the new fstab file.




> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: JD <jd1008 at gmail.com>
> To: Community support for Fedora users <users at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2010 14:31:48 -0700
> Subject: Re: Can one now help?
>  On 07/17/2010 01:18 PM, Parshwa Murdia wrote:
>


> Use the install CD/DVD and select rescue mode.
> The rescue mode will try to moun the fedora partition and will as for
> permission to do so. Answer in the positive.
> Then, chroot /mnt/sysimage  and fix your fstab.
>

Can you please explicitly let me know what and how to do? means what i did
is just booted from the live cd, and now the icon of installing it again to
the hard drive is coming which i am not at all touching. but the thing is
that, how in terminal i type and what i type? to mount or backing up the old
one??

You might want to copy your fstab to a usb stick (in case you are still
> unable to boot into fedora),
> and use your windows to follow this thread and post to it your fstab so we
> can see what wlese might be wrong.
>

same thing again, using the live CD, how can i use rescue mode? and access
the old fstab file? after booting from the live cd, its showing the new
fstab file.
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