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From: Mark <whitetr6@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] fixing fstab
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 22:08:03
Message-Id: 1f81f7e00511141357m2629831h626c7f3facca0b7b@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] fixing fstab by John Jolet
1 hmmm. I think I'll start over on this one. I must have gone astray in
2 the instructions somewhere. Thanks for trying to help guys!
3
4 Mark
5
6 On 11/14/05, John Jolet <john@×××××.net> wrote:
7 >
8 > On Nov 14, 2005, at 3:23 PM, Mark wrote:
9 >
10 > > Well, I thought so too. So I booted to the Universal CD. Then I did
11 > > mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/gentoo
12 > >
13 > > Then I did cd /mnt/gentoo and did a ls
14 > >
15 > > all I see is boot and lost+found
16 > >
17 > you sure /dev/hda3 is your correct partition?
18 >
19 > > Did I make a bigger mess than I thought?
20 > >
21 > > On 11/14/05, Petteri Räty <petteri.raty@××××××××××.fi> wrote:
22 > >> Mark wrote:
23 > >>> I made a mistake while creating my fstab on a new install, and I
24 > >>> can't
25 > >>> boot. If I use my Universal CD to boot up, what command(s) will I
26 > >>> have
27 > >>> to run to get access to the fstab to fix it? (I'm assuming I have to
28 > >>> re-mount & chroot but I don't know specifically what to do). Thanks!
29 > >>
30 > >> You only need to mount your root partition to /mnt/gentoo and then
31 > >> execute nano /mnt/gentoo/etc/fstab -w. You can change nano to another
32 > >> editor if you like.
33 > >>
34 > >> Regards,
35 > >> Petteri
36 > >>
37 > >>
38 > >>
39 > >
40 > >
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