Re: f8 boots!

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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
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