On 17 December 2014 at 15:44, Phillip Susi <[email protected]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 12/17/2014 9:37 AM, Michal Suchanek wrote: >> Indeed, I have # UNCONFIGURED FSTAB FOR BASE SYSTEM >> >> However, recovering from damaged or misconfigured fstab is also >> valid recovery scenario. >> >> How am I supposed to fix the fstab when the root filesystem cannot >> be remounted to update the fstab when the fstab is invalid? > > Well, as you figured out, you mount /proc. Did you mention this used > to work though? In what version? If it used to work then stopped > then it may have been unintentional and I'll check with upstream.
"It used to work" in the sense that I routinely recover systems with broken init by using a shell in place of init and mounting the / readwrite. I am not sure I had to recover broken fstab in the past. Also note that I mounted proc and then bind-mounted mtab. This results in mtab becoming unreadable (which is possibly bug in itself) and allows mount to proceed mounting /. Just mounting proc is not enough. This is not obvious or straightforward solution to the problem. Thanks Michal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
