Boot lockup

[Dan Hunter]

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

hard drive number 3 crashed.
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
I get the option of making changes, but / is a read-only file system.
I can't change fstab.

I tried putting a loading FC5 on a new disk and then mounting the old boot disk.
But every time the PC boots, it winds up with the same mount error.
I specified booting from Primary master, Primary slave, Secondary master, Secondary slave, normal, and drive C:.
It starts out on the new boot drive and then, some how, winds up on the old boot drive and errors out.

I tried hitting the "I" during the boot process.

I don't know what to do next.

Any ideas?

Thanks for any help.

Dan Hunter


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