Re: Startup hangs because of bad partition
On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 03:10:16PM -0400, B. Szyszka wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I wanted to move /var to another partition since it kept on
> filling up, but I accidentally forgot to make its partition a
> Linux one and now Linux won't start. When I boot it, it
> asks me for my root password for maintenance or press
But what exactly does it say BEFORE running this sulogin? (you can use
SHIFT+PGUP to see what was printed to the console before)
> Crtl+D to continue booting. If I put in the password, I get a
> limited set of programs including no text editor so I can't
> edit /etc/fstab
try mounting our /usr partition - some editor should be there...
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Marcin Owsiany
porridge@pandora.info.bielsko.pl
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