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This may be none of my business, but why were you using quotas in the first 
place?  For your root filesystem, no less? What user are you trying to put 
quotas on?

try booting into runlevel 3 or something similar. When you get the prompt, 
type 'linux 3' and see if that works...

HTH
Lucas


On Thursday 27 September 2001 07:40 pm, you wrote:
> Please help!  I have an urgent situation. I'm running RedHat 7.1 on i686. 
> I just attempted to create quotas for my root filesystem.  I followed
> directions by setting the option field in the /etc/fstab file to
> defaults,usrquota,grpquota for the root filesystem line.  I may have made a
> typo.  On rebooting I got the following error:
> Remounting root filesystem in read/write mode: / not mounted already, or
> bad option.
>
> The boot then quickly fails as the root system is left in read only mode. 
> I have a boot diskette and can get to the boot prompt but don't know what
> to do to resolve the issue.  My syslinux.cfg on the boot diskette is as
> follows: default linux
> prompt 1
> display boot.msg
> timeout 100
> label linux
>     kernel vmlinuz
>     append initrd=initrd.img root=/dev/hda5
>
> I'd guess that I need to override the /etc/fstab or somehow modify it.  If
> I could only bring the system up in read only I could copy some of my
> unsaved work and re-install.  Any help greatly appreciated if only to point
> to another forum.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mike Kollier
>
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