Re: Problem booting up Fedora Core 5 After Adding USB Floppy!

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Lists wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Any help with the below would be great.
> I added an entry into my "stab file" while in root. It was to activate a usb
> floppy drive. Now I can no longer boot up normally into linux but am told I
> have a file system error and I can hear  the usb floppy drive being
> activated. I think fedora is looking for a linux file system on a floppy
> disk. It is giving me choices to do a repair of the file system or just
> reboot which only brings me back round to the same situation again. I really
> need to edit the stab file but can't get access to it as everything seems to
> be "read only". Not even sure if I can locate the Stab file in this root
> environment.
> I tried unplugging the USB floppy and restarting the computer but still no
> success.
> Here is the line I entered in the stab file:
> /dev/sda    /mnt/usbfd       auto            n
> 
> Many thanks for any help.
> 
> Paul.
> 
> 
What is the complete fstab line? More specifically, are you using
the noauto option? (You are only showing n of the options section.)

As a quick fix, so you can boot for now, boot with a good floppy in
the drive.

Mikkel
-- 

  Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons,
for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!


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