Rescue mode

[Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D.]

* Boot up off install disk #1 and watch the screen closely.

* At the appropriate moment, hit the TAB key, which will allow you to
enter a selection.

* enter: 

	install rescue

which will launch anaconda in rescue mode. You will now be running a
mini-linux off the RAM disk.

* follow the instructions presented
Your actual linux installation will be mounted under /mnt/. You will be
given explicit instructions on how to run "chroot".  Once you have
"changed root", your editors will work.

-Joseph


On Sun, 2005-02-20 at 10:33, Charles Trois wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I had YDL 3.0.1 running on my G4 iMac, but, due to some foolhardy 
> changes (probably in /etc/fstab), the thing does not work any more
> and I am trying to repair it.
> 
> So I have booted with install rescue and immediately got an error 
> message: "An error occurred trying to mount some or all of your system. 
> Some of it may be mounted under /mnt/sysimage".
> 
> Indeed I see in the shell that /mnt/sysimage contains only dev, home and 
> proc, whereas the whole system should be there (if I understand 
> correctly). There is also / , but it looks queer: fstab seems to be 
> absent from /etc.
> 
> At this stage, having no previous experience in this field, I feel 
> uncertain of what I am supposed to do. On the Net, although there are 
> plenty of references to "rescue", none deals with anything similar to my 
> case.
> 
> What I want is just to edit /etc/fstab, and I don't want to try anything 
> that would make things worse.
> 
> Could somebody advise me, please?
> 
> Charles
> 
> 
> 
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