Rescue mode

[Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D.]

Charles,

Assuming your disk has not been completely trashed,  it sounds like the
rescue sequence is not mounting your linux installation. 

Try this...
Once the rescue sequence has completed and the system is operating off
the ramdisk, use the "mount" command to manually mount each of your
partitions under /mnt. If that works,  you can then run chroot and 
repair fstab.


-Joseph

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On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 04:23, Charles Trois wrote:
> Thank you Joseph for your reply.
> 
> > From: "Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D." <joseph_sacco at comcast.net>
> > Subject: Re: Rescue mode 
> > * 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.
> 
> Yes, that's what I did.
> 
>   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/.
> 
> No. As I explained, it's not there. The actual problem is that the 
> repair device itself fails.
> 
>   You will be
> > given explicit instructions on how to run "chroot".  Once you have
> > "changed root", your editors will work.
> > 
> > -Joseph
> 
> Have you got any further suggestions?
> 
> Charles
> 
> > 
> > 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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