Hi people,

I’ve done something stupid to my /etc/fstab. I made some changes because I wasn’t having much luck getting supermount to work.

Anyway after a reboot, I found my system now hangs at the stage where it says “Mounting local filesystems”, and I cant find a way to bypass this.

I’ve left the machine for quite some time hoping it might pull through but no luck…

 

I’ve tried using programs for Windows to read the ext2 partition so that I can copy /etc/fstab to windows, edit the file, and then copy it back to the ext2 partition, but I’m not having any luck copying it back.

 

I’ve tried booting a Slackware Linux installation cd-rom, gone to a terminal and tried mounting /dev/hda1 to /mnt/hda1 but I get errors telling me there’s either too many filesystems mounted, theres a bad superblock, it’s the wrong fs type, etc…

 

So can anyone think of any other ways I could fix the problem?

I’m using Mandrake 9.1 by the way.

 

Thanks very much,

 

Chris Barnes.

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