Problem with mounting hard disk after FC5 installation

[Rickey Moore]

On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 02:24 +0100, Robert Spanton wrote:
> > Any idea of how one might go about troubleshooting this further?
> I'd investigate how sysfs works in the whole situation, and then work
> on from there - since the device doesn't exist in there until after
> the partprobe. Perhaps it might also be useful to look into what
> partprobe does.

In my case, during the boot sequence, it complains of not finding
fstab.sys, which isn't there in /etc
How do I generate that file? Safely? <g> Ric