I had a curious problem booting my desktop the other day. (I only boot it on very rare occasions.) It is a SCSI machine, with an additional IDE disk. Basically, udev did not create /dev/hda (as far as I can see) so the IDE disk, which was mentioned in /etc/fstab , could not be opened. As a result, the boot failed, and the machine sank to single-user mode. I wanted to edit /etc/fstab , but the root partition was mounted read-only, so I could not do this. In the end, I run knoppix, and edited it that way, and the problem was solved. (I tried both the FC-4 rescue CD, and FC-4 CD#1, but neither worked as they said they could not read the CD, despite the fact that they were reading it. However, that is a different issue which I asked about here without getting an answer.) My question is whether there was something simpler I could have done? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
