[NCLUG] Grub boot loader and bad fstab

[Darren Smith]

Assuming you're using LILO:
  LILO: linux rootfstype=ext2

-Darren

On Wednesday 19 December 2001 04:50 pm, you wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I am running RH7.2 on a IBM570 thinkpad that work gave me(that or they
> where going to trash it).  I set it up using ext3, but when I would boot
> I kept getting a error about mulit users and the journal.  So I used
> debugfs
> and remove the journal stuff as I found in the readme for going back to
> ext2.  Not thinking I rebooted the machine without editing the fstab.
> So
> now I am unable to mount the root file system and there for unable to
> boot.
> But since I do not have a cdrom or floppy for the system I am wondering
> if there is a way to override the filesystem type in fstab.
>
> Thank you for the help.
>
> Joshua