On Sat, October 15, 2005 12:37 pm, Bill Perkins wrote: > > In the mean time, you could try booting into rescue mode (saw something > about that a few days ago on this list) using either the ISO image from the > Fedora website, or you can get there with the first disk of the > distro's set. If you can get that far, write down the /etc/fstab file that > is (hopefully) generated when booting into rescue mode (I haven't tried > this as yet, although I may give it a shot just to see what we wind up > with). If that doesn't work, I'd try running fdisk -l to get a list of the > disks and partitions, and work from memory and poking around (mount the > partitions one at a time and examine them) to build a new fstab. FWIW, > here is what mine looks like: Hey Bill, I did boot into rescue mode again and managed to reconstruct my /etc/fstab. After a few reboot attempts i think i have managed to rebuild fstab to its former glory. Posting this from the formerly unbootable machine. BTW i do actually take regular backups of /etc, just not this machine. I guess that will change now :) I wonder if it would be feasable to have fstab-sync take a backup of /etc/fstab, or perform some sanity tests (ie there is a /, /proc, /sys etc) before making changes? Any thoughts/comments? Cheers, Dan
