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Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 02:59:02 +0100
From: Siegbert Baude <siegbert.baude@gmx.de>
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To: Qiang Xu <qxu@surface.ee.uh.edu>
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Subject: Re: about lab.conf
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> Then when
> I reboot, system tell me there is mistake in lab.conf and then ask me to run
> /bin/sh, then there is the # prompt, and no login. So I could not login as
> root or other users.
>                I try to do the following:
>          1. rewrite the lab.conf on the other PC, then try to overwrite it,
> but it tell me the lab.conf is readonly file system
>          2. I try to run vi to modify the lab.conf on the local PC, but vi
> doesn't run.

At the # prompt type:

mount -a

Then you should get all your file systems mounted with the proper permissions
mentioned in /etc/fstab . vi will work again also, as your /usr will be mounted.

Ciao
Siegbert


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