On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 07:22:00AM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: > Hi > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >It looks like you ran etc-update and let it overwrite everything. You > >need to fix fstab so it has your devices instead of /dev/ROOT, etc. and > >put the right type of file systems in. > > > >Do not delete the tmpfs line - it's used by Gentoo. > > > > > I have not run 'etc-upgrade'. The problem happened after 'emerge -u > world'. Some other folks on the list or forum also fell into the same > trap. > > Now my problem is that I could not start 'Fail Safe' anymore. Neither I > am allowed to key in root-password to login as ROOT nor to login as > USER. I can login just pressing 'ENTER' but on a read-only system. I > am not allowed to edit /etc/fstab. Any suggestion? > > TIA > > B.R. > Stephen >
Hi, You should boot from the original live-cd, mount /dev/hda1 (or whatever is your root device) to /mnt for example, if root is hda1 mount /dev/hda1 /mnt then nano -w /mnt/etc/fstab and change /dev/BOOT to /dev/hda1 Then you should be able to boot without the CD and sort out the remainder of the partitions. Don't forget to change the partition type from xfs to either auto or the correct fs type. -- Tom Wesley
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