On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 [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.
In rescue mode, have it mount your partitions under /mnt, prior to going to the console prompt. This should be an option on the rescue system's "menu". Your root partition should then mount as /mnt/hdXY. Your /etc/fstab file is then accessible as /mnt/hdXY/etc/fstab. -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 & 9.0 "There are two kinds of people in the world, those who believe there are two kinds of people in the world and those who don't." - Robert Benchley
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