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cadman420
11-04-11, 02:07 PM
I was messing with some settings in my fstab and when I rebooted my machine linux mint (9 x 64) will no longer mount drives and will no longer start. I tried it in recovery mode and normal mode, it just crashes out. Is there a way I can use the disk to get into my drive and make some changes to my fstab so that it will boot normal again.
Stratus_ss
11-04-11, 04:43 PM
sure can

grab a live cd and mount the drive and edit the file. You may need root permissions, or you may be able to do it from within nautilus, not 100% sure about it
cadman420
11-04-11, 06:02 PM
Got to love the live CD's, saved me more then once. Thanks, I will give that a shot.
cadman420
11-06-11, 10:10 AM
OK, the liveCD works by mounting the file system and editing the fstab as admin, but I am having a strange problem. It is now stating that it can't mount 0. This is were I am lost. All I did originally was add some lines to the fstab trying to get my server shares to auto mount and that caused my original problem. So I was able to go in and erase those lines and rebooted and now it is still telling me it can't mount. hmm.
Stratus_ss
11-06-11, 11:56 AM
can you post up your fstab
and the exact error you are getting?
cadman420
11-06-11, 05:07 PM
can you post up your fstab
and the exact error you are getting?

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid -o value -s UUID' to print the universally unique identifier
# for a device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name
# devices that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
/dev/sda1 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=cda7afe3-7340-4560-82b4-cf1c6eb90338 none swap sw
0 0

The error comes from the beginning screen were there are 4 dots showing it loading. Then finally it says "error mounting 0" and under that gives me the option to skip or to repair. Skipping the mount does nothing, and when I try to repair it, it goes into a black and white screen then reboots.
kaltag
11-06-11, 06:09 PM
It looks like there are 2 zeros on the end there under the UUID. Try removing those zeros and you should be good.
Stratus_ss
11-06-11, 06:40 PM
I believe it is because the text did not wrap.
Therefore 0 0 is what it is trying mount
cadman420
11-06-11, 07:43 PM
ok, that worked. Thank you.