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From: Luke Roberts <luke@roberts.nl>
Subject: Re: How to fix fstab ?
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>Hi,
>
>After mounting a second hard drive in my box, I have added a wrong entry
>in
>/etc/fstab/ and my system (FBS 4.0) doesn't boot any longer.

I have had this too. Don't worry It's not the end of the world!

When the machine stops booting you end up in a single user prompt and the 
'/' filesystem is mounted read only. You need to mount your file systems 
manually and the edit the /etc/fstab file. Repare the entry that's causing 
all the trouble and restart the machine.

the commands that should do the trick are:

   mount /dev/ados1a /
   mount /dev/ados1f /usr
   mount /dev/ados1e /var

   cd /etc
   vi fstab     # repare it

   shutdown -r now



Good luck,

Luke



>The boot sequence stops with :
>         ..
>         ...
>         (checking and mounting /dev/ad0s.. works fine)
>         ...
>         /dev/da0 : the following file system had an unexpected inconsistency
>         :/dev/da0 (usr/home/backup)
>         Automatic file system check failed...help !
>         Enter full pathname of shell or return for /bin/sh
>
>I tried to overwrite fstab with fstab(tilde) but here is the
>following answer : read-only file system
>Is there a way to recover the original file before starting a brand new
>installation ?    :-(
>
>Many thanks
>
>
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