On Fri 5/6/2005 at 8:15 PM Simon wrote: > hi all, > I was running two hard drives, one MDK 2005LE and the other with Windows on. I > was using lilo to boot into either. I changed the windows hard drive for > another upon which I loaded another MDK2005LE. When I tried to boot it fell > down on having a record in fstab of the windows swap partition which it could > no longer find. > I have tried reloading the lilo using mcc but that doesn't help. > I am now in the position where I have one hard drive loaded with MDK2005LE > which according to system commander is active bootable, but all I get is a > load of 99 99 99 99 99 and nothig when I try and boot. I think I need to > edit fstab and get rid of everything that shouldnt be there but I have no > idea how to go about it. > I am writing this mail on Knoppix. I have tried to edit fstab using Knoppix > but I am hitting permission problems and can't find fstab-sync.
If you have a bootable CD, then boot from that, hit F1 and type rescue. Then choose 'Mount your partitions under /mnt', then choose 'Go to console' At that point you should be able to cd to /mnt/etc and edit your fstab. Good luck! -larry
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