F9: fsck gotcha on booting

[Andrew Farris]

Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> My fstab contains the line:
> 
> LABEL=/xtra             /xtra                   ext3    defaults        1 2
> 
> which worked fine on F8. Now with F9-Preview the boot process halts with
> the following error (I'm working form memory here):
> 
> 	Fsck: cannot resolve "LABEL=/xtra"
> 
> and drops me to a Shell to fix the problem. Two things:
> 
> 1) From the Shell I can happily "mount /xtra" with no problems, so what
> gives?
> 
> 2) I can't edit /etc/fstab from this Shell. "mount" claims that the
> system disk is mounted rw. but when I try to edit fstab "vi" tells me
> it's read-only, and in fact "> foo" from the Shell gives the same error.
> So I feel I have to ask why is the emergency Shell set up to not let me
> edit anything?

Did you try editing then using w! to save it?  That may have worked.

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