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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