help with crashed system

[Tom Masterson]

I created a bootable memory stick (for some reason my netbook doesn't 
recognize either usb cd drive though my linux laptop does) and got up 
brltty.  The error we are getting is "general error mounting filesystems" 
and fstab looks just fine.

Tom

On Wed, 30 Dec 2009, covici at ccs.covici.com wrote:

> Can you get any live cd for your type of processor -- if not it was a
> strange netbook.
>
> Tom Masterson <kd7cyu at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> It would appear that grml may not work as the netbook uses a lpia
>> processor and grml comes only in x86 and amd64 flavours.
>>
>> Tom
>>
>> On Wed, 30 Dec 2009, covici at ccs.covici.com wrote:
>>
>>> Get the exact message and then use grml which does support brltty and
>>> fix your fstab.
>>>
>>> Tom Masterson <kd7cyu at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I have a Dell Netbook which is running Ubuntu.  I am using a Baum
>>>> Bralleconnect 40 with usb.  My netbook is coming up with an error on
>>>> bootup that my wife tells me reads something like "error mounting a
>>>> device in /etc/fstab" and then gives me the option to go to a recovery
>>>> prompt. If I run brltty at that point it appears to come up but does
>>>> not find my display.  It is version 4.0 and was working with my
>>>> display earlier.  If I run lsusb I do get a list of stuff and it
>>>> appears to recognize it if I plug in a usb memory stick.  Can anyone
>>>> hlep with suggestions?  I would settle for speech at this point or is
>>>> this a case where we break out the usb cdrom and rebuild the system
>>>> from scratch?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>> Tom
>>>>
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