On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, Brian Buhrow wrote:

> 	Why not just modify /etc/fstab such that the entry for
> the root filesystem is corrupted slightly.  this will cause it to panic on
> mountroot, which should be a good test.  Then, boot off a floppy, mount the
> root, modify /etc/fstab to be correct, and you're off and running again.
> 
Thanks, but I still must have something wired wrong. All off the messages
come up on the Serial console and I'm still able start X and work away
with attached keyboard. When mangled the fstab and rebooted I couldn't
access the machine from the s-console when the ".... or sh to
continue" prompt came up.

Any thoughts?

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