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Jul 17, 2009

Because I forgot to bring a portable hard drive, I cannot boot to a linux OS.

The reason is that the /etc/fstab has a line that is

Quote:

And ext3-datadisk is on the portable hard drive.

The booting process stopped when it prompts for a root passwd or Ctl-D to reboot.

I keyed in the root passwd, and a (File Recovery) prompt appeared.

I tried to vi /etc/fstab but I cannot save the edited /etc/fstab.

How can I boot successfully in this case ?

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