Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Mark <whitetr6@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] fixing fstab
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 21:28:36
Message-Id: 1f81f7e00511141323y728b9e8do236c35ccd1532f0@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] fixing fstab by "Petteri Räty"
1 Well, I thought so too. So I booted to the Universal CD. Then I did
2 mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/gentoo
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4 Then I did cd /mnt/gentoo and did a ls
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6 all I see is boot and lost+found
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8 Did I make a bigger mess than I thought?
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10 On 11/14/05, Petteri Räty <petteri.raty@××××××××××.fi> wrote:
11 > Mark wrote:
12 > > I made a mistake while creating my fstab on a new install, and I can't
13 > > boot. If I use my Universal CD to boot up, what command(s) will I have
14 > > to run to get access to the fstab to fix it? (I'm assuming I have to
15 > > re-mount & chroot but I don't know specifically what to do). Thanks!
16 >
17 > You only need to mount your root partition to /mnt/gentoo and then
18 > execute nano /mnt/gentoo/etc/fstab -w. You can change nano to another
19 > editor if you like.
20 >
21 > Regards,
22 > Petteri
23 >
24 >
25 >
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29 Mark
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Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] fixing fstab Renat Golubchyk <ragermany@×××.net>
Re: [gentoo-user] fixing fstab "Mariusz Pękala" <skoot@××.pl>
Re: [gentoo-user] fixing fstab John Jolet <john@×××××.net>
Re: [gentoo-user] fixing fstab Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@×××.edu>