Thank you Joseph for your reply.
From: "Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Rescue mode * Boot up off install disk #1 and watch the screen closely.
* At the appropriate moment, hit the TAB key, which will allow you to enter a selection.
* enter:
install rescue
which will launch anaconda in rescue mode.
Yes, that's what I did.
You will now be running a
mini-linux off the RAM disk. * follow the instructions presented Your actual linux installation will be mounted under /mnt/.
No. As I explained, it's not there. The actual problem is that the repair device itself fails.
You will be
given explicit instructions on how to run "chroot". Once you have "changed root", your editors will work.
-Joseph
Have you got any further suggestions?
Charles
On Sun, 2005-02-20 at 10:33, Charles Trois wrote:
Hello!
I had YDL 3.0.1 running on my G4 iMac, but, due to some foolhardy changes (probably in /etc/fstab), the thing does not work any more
and I am trying to repair it.
So I have booted with install rescue and immediately got an error message: "An error occurred trying to mount some or all of your system. Some of it may be mounted under /mnt/sysimage".
Indeed I see in the shell that /mnt/sysimage contains only dev, home and proc, whereas the whole system should be there (if I understand correctly). There is also / , but it looks queer: fstab seems to be absent from /etc.
At this stage, having no previous experience in this field, I feel uncertain of what I am supposed to do. On the Net, although there are plenty of references to "rescue", none deals with anything similar to my case.
What I want is just to edit /etc/fstab, and I don't want to try anything that would make things worse.
Could somebody advise me, please?
Charles
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