MIchael,
Hmmm... What distro are you using? it looks like your root or boot filesystem
is /dev/hda5... mandrake likes to do that....
I also noticed your "syslinux.cfg" looks pretty simular to a lilo.conf...
Do you have a lilo?
with lilo you can add a boot paramater when loading your system, one that might get
you into the system
long enough to fix your fstab is:
mount root=/dev/hda5
(you can also define how to mount it, with -ro and other mount parameters)
Also, mount has a -a option, which reads the /etc/fstab to mount everything the way
you want at boot time...
Jamie
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>From: Michael Kollier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 19:23:53 -0700 (PDT)
>Subject: Can't remount root fs read/write
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>Please help. I just attempted to install quotas on my root
>filesystem. I followed directions by setting the option field in
>the /dev/fstab file to defaults,usrquota,grpquota for the root
>filesystem line. I may have made a typo. On rebooting I got the
>following error:
>Remounting root filesystem in read/write mode: / not mounted
>already, or bad option.
>
>Then the boot quickly fails as the root filesystem is left in
>read only mode. I have a boot diskette and can get to the boot
>prompt but don't know what to do to correct the matter. My
>syslinux.cfg is as follows:
>default linux
>prompt 1
>display boot.msg
>timeout 100
>label linux
> kernel vmlinuz
> append initrd=initrd.img root=/dev/hda5
>
>Any help greatly appreciated if only to point to another forum.
>Thanks.
>
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