Boot lockup

[Stuart Sears]

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Dan Hunter wrote:
> I have a PC with Fedora Core 5 on it.
> I boot from disk 1 ( hda )
> hda1 = /boot
> hda2 = /
> hda3 = swap
> 
> I have two additional drives
> hdc1 = /mnt/raid
> hdc2 = /mnt/raid2

surely that's two partitions on the same disk?

> hard drive number 3 crashed.
which device is that? /dev/hdc?

> When the drive crashed, the system rebooted.
> Or we lost power, crashing the system, and the drive failed.
> Either way, I have a dead drive and a system that refuses to boot without that drive. 
> I have a replacement drive, ready to installed.


> But I can't get the machine to boot up.
> It gives an error when trying to mount /mnt/raid2

what exactly is the error message?
> I get the option of making changes, but / is a read-only file system.
> I can't change fstab.

yes you can.
try this:

mount /proc
mount -o remount /


/ should then be read-write and you can (for example) comment out the
/mnt/raid2 line  in /etc/fstab to see if that is the only error


regards

Stuart
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Stuart Sears RHCA RHCX
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