On Tuesday 18 December 2007, Timothy Murphy wrote: >Tim wrote: >> On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 12:23 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >>> I'm reticent to attempt editing fstab until I know it works as I had a >>> heck of a time recovering from a one character typu in that once >>> before, it will not skip a bad line and proceed with the rest of the >>> configuration. Any error there appears to be fatal. >> >> I hadn't noticed that before. But you can always put your mount points >> after the system ones. And you can manually mount things through a CLI >> if you need to. > >I always keep a "single" option in my grub.conf , eg > >title Fedora (2.6.22.9-91.fc7) single > root (hd1,1) > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.22.9-91.fc7 single ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/slash > initrd /initrd-2.6.22.9-91.fc7.img > >Then if there is eg a problem in /etc/fstab >I can just boot in single mode and change it. > >I've never seen this suggested before, >but it seems quite a good idea to me? Yes it does seem to be a very good idea, thanks for the hint, Tim. Done. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Polymer physicists are into chains.
