"Chris Barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> 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.

try booting in to single user mode by interrupting your boot loader and 
passing "1" or "single" as an argument to your kernel, usually;

linux 1

That might not work, though, so try a larger hammer

linux init=/bin/bash

Then at the command prompt

mount -o remount,rw / 

if fstab is broken you might need to specify the device, ie

mount -o remount,rw /dev/hda1

fix fstab 

umount -a

If paranoid, "touch /test" to confirm read only.

reboot.






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