Problem booting - what should I have done?

[Joachim Backes [RHRK]]

Timothy Murphy wrote:
> I had a curious problem booting my desktop the other day.
> (I only boot it on very rare occasions.)
> It is a SCSI machine, with an additional IDE disk.
> Basically, udev did not create /dev/hda (as far as I can see)
> so the IDE disk, which was mentioned in /etc/fstab , could not be opened.
> 
> As a result, the boot failed, and the machine sank
> to single-user mode.
> 
> I wanted to edit /etc/fstab , but the root partition
> was mounted read-only, so I could not do this.

mount -o remount,rw /

> 
> In the end, I run knoppix, and edited it that way,
> and the problem was solved.
> 
> (I tried both the FC-4 rescue CD, and FC-4 CD#1,
> but neither worked as they said they could not read the CD,
> despite the fact that they were reading it.
> However, that is a different issue
> which I asked about here without getting an answer.)
> 
> My question is whether there was something simpler I could have done?
> 
> 

Regards

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