New hdd, moved RedHat partition, floppy boot won't.

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Author: KevinBuettnerkev@primenet.com
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Subject: New hdd, moved RedHat partition, floppy boot won't.
On Jul 3, 3:53pm, wrote:

> \_ I tried changing /etc/fstab earlier, but that darned "Read-only file system"
> \_ stopped that right away. Is there a parameter I can use with 'linux
> \_ root=/dev/hda2' that will put me into write mode. When I boot this way I'm
> \_ asked for my root password which I give but I don't have root privelages.
> \_ If I type '#whoami' I get 'root' but I still can't edit that file??
> \_ #vi /etc/fstab allows me to view without it seems changing it. But wait, I
> \_ recall it said to use '!' to override that. I tried and still got
> \_ Read-only...
>
> Try a remount:
>
> mount -n -o remount,rw /
>
> YMMV.


And if that doesn't work, just download tomsrtbt and make yourself a
rescue disk.