Changed a filesystem's name -- now system hangs on reboot (help)

Chuck Swiger cswiger at mac.com
Thu Jul 10 00:09:37 PDT 2003


greg at exchange.janemobley.com wrote:
[ ... ]
> I've looked through the handbook and tried (unsuccessfully) to reboot into
> single-user mode or otherwise get to a place where I can either comment out
> the line in fstab or skip the check -- no luck.
> 
> Any ideas much appreciated.

This is when you boot single-user mode off of the install CD, or the FIXIT CD 
(#2) if you have that around.  Then mount your hard drive's root partition on 
/mnt (or make something in /tmp), and fix the problem.

-- 
-Chuck




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