Can one now help?
JD
jd1008 at gmail.com
Sun Jul 18 15:22:31 UTC 2010
On 07/18/2010 07:39 AM, Parshwa Murdia wrote:
>
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> From: Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko at gmail.com <mailto:vvmarko at gmail.com>>
> To: users at lists.fedoraproject.org
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> 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.
>
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> From: JD <jd1008 at gmail.com <mailto:jd1008 at gmail.com>>
> To: Community support for Fedora users
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> 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.
>
Live CD also allows you to just boot the cd without installing it.
So, do not select install. just boot it and the desktop will come up.
in desktop, open a terminal:
Click Applications -> System Tools -> Terminal
in the shell terminal, mount your fedora partition:
su -
No password needed. just press enter.
mkdir /mydisk
mount /dev/sdXN /mydisk
where X is the drive letter and N is the partition number (starts at 1)
where you installed fedora.
Now cd to your /etc and edit fstab and fix the problem.
If you do not know how to do that, post the contents of your fstab to
this list
and I am certain someone will tell you what is wrong.
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