stuck in rescue mode [SOLVED, SORT OF]

[brian_the_droid]

Hi. I reformatted my windows partition (same hard drive) and now mageia drops me into rescue mode. i believe it is because the fstab needs updating, as windows was a drive it would auto mount. how can i resolve that from rescue mode? This is the only thing I changed before getting dropped into rescue mode. help please!

thanks.

Brian

[jkerr82508]

Obviously what you need to do is remove or comment the fstab line for your windows partition:

This page may help: http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Docs/SysAdm ... DiskRescue

Personally, (since I hate the vi editor) I keep a Mageia live CD around as a rescue disk. If you boot to a live system, then you can use the Mageia GUI tools (drakdisk) to mount the root partition on your hard drive and use a user-friendly text editor to edit fstab.

(I should add that it's a few years since I've had to do that, but I think it's still possible.)

Jim

[brian_the_droid]

I do have a live CD of Mageia. However, I do not see a way to become root and edit that file to modify the line (I do have the new UUID) or delete it. Any suggestions for that? I can get the file open as normal user and look at it, but not edit it.

[jkerr82508]

Use MCC - System - "Open a console as administrator" and launch your text editor from the CLI. (The only Mageia live CD I have on hand is Mageia 1 live KDE, but, using that disk, I am able to launch kwrite in that way and edit the installed system's fstab.)

Jim

[brian_the_droid]

I was able to edit the fstab successfully. I actually did it with my ubuntu partition, which was easier. However, it still dropped me into rescue mode, which means something else was wrong. I decided it would be easiest to reinstall Mageia at that point. Thanks for your help though!