On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 09:12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I used vi to alter fstab as instructed, making /holding into /usr, then > tried to return to telinit 5. It was an utter failure, saying that I was > denied access to /usr/bin/locale, usr/bin/dircolors and /usr/bin/tty. > > I then tried under telinit 1 to vi fstab back to the original one, thinking > I could then chmod to sort it, but it wouldn't let me in. I could not log > in as root. Eventually I got 'Authentication service cannot retrieve authentication > info'. > > I've tried cd1 in rescue mode, but I can't find any way of getting to fstab. > How can I get out of this? > > Anne >
When you did cd one did you chose the option to "mount existing sytem under mnt" If so then fstab should have been in /mnt/etc/fstab on the rescue system. Another option when the lilo screen (assuming you use lilo, I'm not sure on grub) come up hit escape and at the prompt choose linux (or your kernel name) -s. This will boot to single user mode. James
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