\_ SMTP quoth Mike & Barb Kollier on 9/27/2001 19:40 as having spake thusly:
\_
\_ 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.
1) if your boot disk works and gets you to a 'recovery prompt', try
mounting your root file system and checking the /etc/fstab to be
something 'reasonable'. My RH7.1 has a / line that looks like
LABEL=/ / ext2 defaults 1 1
if labels didn't get written to your disk somehow, it may need to
resemble:
/dev/hda1 / ext2 defaults 1 1
2) No rescue disk? Try an install. No, really. Just stop before the
interestesting package selection part somehow. Preferablly just
after 'loading second stage' message, which or may not flash by on
a cd boot. Ctrl-Alt-F2 to get to the second virtual terminal.
Type mount. It *should* have mounted your various partitions
someplace. If it hasn't, go step through a few steps in the first
terminal (Ctrl-Alt-F1) and check back. When you've got them
mounted, go edit fstab as above. (Probably /mnt/etc/fstab, but
ymmv). Then cd back to / pop to first terminal and feed it
ctrl-alt-delete. Should reboto and all is well.
Hum, you may need to say
% PATH=$PATH:/mnt/bin:/mnt/usr/bin
to be able to find vi or other suitable editor (not pico, last I
checked...it did weird things by wrapping config files)
David
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