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Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 13:01:28 -0700 (PDT)
From: Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com>
To: Joe Nieten <jln@lincom-asg.com>
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Subject: Re: HELP lost rsd1 ... can't boot
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On Tue, 20 May 1997, Joe Nieten wrote:
> 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 ...

First you need to mount / rw

mount -u /

Then mount /usr to get vi

mount /usr

Then vi /etc/fstab and do a CTRL-D when back at the root prompt.
The system will then bring itself up.

Dan
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