Try booting the machine in single-user mode.
At the lilo prompt type "linux single" (assuming your linux boot option is
called linux). If you have a graphical screen, Alt+X should get the "true"
LILO prompt. If this doesn't work (ie you're still readonly), try
remounting root via:
mount /dev/hde5 / -o rw,remount
or something similar.
HTH
Paul.
On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Robert Shand wrote:
> Just a quick question that some of you may be able to help with.
>
> Last night I was playing with my hard drives, rearranging them etc. This
> had the effect of changing drive ids. What was hda1 is now hde1. So I
> managed to get lilo to boot my linux machine by specifying a root ie linux
> root = /dev/hde5
>
> It boots but then complains that it can't get access to the specified
> partitions, ie it want to get access to hda6, but it should now point to
> hde6 etc. So I thought I should just change the entries in /etc/fstab The
> problem is that it keeps complaining that the drive is read only, when I try
> to write to the fstab file. So I tried mounting /dev/hde5 into /home to see
> if I could change it from there, again no luck.
>
> Also if I just type mount I get (along the lines of)
>
> /dev/hda5 ext2 /
>
> Which should of course be
> /dev/hde5 ext2 /
>
> Anyone give me any pointers as to how I can change the fstab file so my
> machine will reboot.
>
> If not, don't worry I was going to redo my machine this weekend anyway :)
>
> Cheers
> Bob
>
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