Cannot boot into linux, /usr/bin/mntent chroot error

Gilboa Davara gilboada at netvision.net.il
Mon Oct 24 06:43:51 UTC 2005


It'll help.
In general, you should boot using the rescue CD and/or init 1 (by adding
"1" to the end of the grub command line) and copy the missing (?)
files. 

GIlboa

On Sun, 2005-10-23 at 18:17 -0700, Antonio Olivares wrote:
> Dear kind users of Fedora,
>    One of my computers running Fedora Core 4 kernel
> 2.6.13-1.1356 does not boot anymore.  It stays hanging
> and says that /etc/fstab error cannot run
> /usr/bin/mntent or something like that it hangs and
> says someting about cannot chroot the system. 
> Computer was running well now even default
> 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 kernel does not load.  I can run
> Linux but only on live cd.  What should I do?  
> 
> Should I send exact messages on screen to better
> diagnoze the problem(s)?
> 
> I will get to machine tomorrow in the morning to apply
> suggestions/advice on the matter.  
> 
> TIA
> 
> Antonio
> 
> 
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