Marcia,
If you want to re-install just do so as if you were installing for the
first time. If you've defined the partitions, such as '/' (root), /home,
/boot, and so forth you can format all the partitions except your home
dir and that will leave all your data files in tact while installing the
OS afresh. That is your best option at this point. It appears that
something catastrophic has occured to your system and the only way I can
see out of this is by re-installing the OS itself.
If you have any futher questions on this please feel free to email me
directly if you wish. I can help you sort out the options open to you as
far as partitioning is concerned as can the others here on this list.
Mark
Marcia Waller wrote:
>
> Dear Paul, Alan, Mark, Thank you for your help. I would definitely agree
> that my system is stalling as it's attempting to mount the 'root' file
> system in read/write mode.
>
> I typed the' linux single' and it made no difference. I have not found a
> way to get to a console or linuxconf.
>
> I have read and tried many things and none have worked. I suppose you have
> to choose Grub at installation and it is a little late now.
>
> The failsafe did not work with LILO that is for sure. Would I be better off
> totally reinstalling Linux Mandrake 7.0? I did do the upgrade install and
> that did not change anything either.
>
> I suspect that I did something incorrectly in the fstab file since I was
> working on that for the zip drive just before I had problems. I touched
> nothing but the zip drive entry. I have been working on that for awhile
> trying to get it to work and that never hurt anything before plus it did not
> get my zip to work either:)
>
> Thank you for your help. I may just try to start over if I can.
>
> If I decide to reinstall how would I use grub instead?
>
> I appreciate the help. Marcia
