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From: "Paul T. Root" <proot@horton.iaces.com>
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Subject: Re: HELP lost rsd1 ... can't boot
To: jln@lincom-asg.com (Joe Nieten)
Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 14:35:35 -0500 (CDT)
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In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970520133222.006e5d14@mailman.lincom-asg.com> from Joe Nieten at "May 20, 97 01:32:23 pm"
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In a previous message, Joe Nieten said:
> Hello,
> 
> One of the hard disks in my machine died, However the boot disk (sd0) is
> still there. 
> 
> I have tried to modify the fstab to ignore the "dead" disk, but the file
> system is read-only ...
> 
> Any idea how to boot without this dead drive??


boot single user, probably fsck /, then mount / (this makes it rw)
edit /etc/fstab, reboot or exit to continue (will skip all fsck's).

Paul.

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