recovery mode

[Andre Mangan]

If you are quick enough you might be able to use the Pause button on your
keyboard just at the right time.  But leave that for the moment, it may not
be important.

Tony, could you post a copy of your fstab file please.  I gather that you
are a bit nervous of doing things in the terminal but I will give you clear
instructions on how to do this.

Open the Terminal and type "cat /etc/fstab" (without the quotation marks)
and press Enter.  That will give an indication as to how your file system is
configured and your drives.

Copy that output and paste it into the return email.



On 05/08/07, Anthony J Brow <tbrow at tpg.com.au> wrote:
>
> Thanks Andrew
> Hope I 've done the right thing. I copied your suggested input, did the
> reboot and got a black screen, where a check of "/dev/sda2 and /dev
> sda4" was going on. At the end of '/dev/sda4' I saw the warning again
> "no final newline at the end of /etc/fstab'. But---- there was  some
> other stuff to read as well, but the check ended that quick, so that I
> could not read it, except a  very quick glance of the "no final newline
> at the end of /etc/fstab" line. Is there a way to keep that info on the
> screen so it can be read properly ?
>
> On Sun, 2007-08-05 at 09:10 +1000, Andre Mangan wrote:
> > Sorry, I forgot to add that you need to reboot after that command.
> >
> >
> >
> > On 05/08/07, Andre Mangan <andremangan at gmail.com> wrote:
> >         Tony, could you try to run the diskcheck programme by typing
> >         "sudo touch /forcefsck" into the Terminal (without the
> >         quotation marks.
> >
> >         Cheers,
> >         Andre
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >         On 03/08/07, Anthony J Brow <tbrow at tpg.com.au> wrote:
> >                 Hi Everyone,
> >
> >                         Your expertise will be really appreciated
> >                 here. When installing
> >                         Skype, I
> >                         was testing the sound as there was no sound.
> >                 Just could not get
> >                         it
> >                         work.Trying sound settings,is where my
> >                 troubles started. Lost
> >                         ALL sound.
> >                         Then trying to get an email address from the
> >                 'evolution' address
> >                         book,
> >                         the system froze, I had to reboot.Tried
> >                 again , same result.
> >                         Tried a
> >                         label/business card program  and it froze. I
> >                 decided to try the
> >                         'generic
> >                         recovery mode'. There was an answer towards
> >                 the end:
> >
> >                         * Mounting local file systems*
> >                         (mntent): Warning ! No final newline at the
> >                 end of /etc/fstab/
> >
> >                         well, I looked it up in google, but the
> >                 answers made no sense to
> >                         this
> >                         nooby, seeing some expected to go to the '
> >                 root' area. I have
> >                         seen
> >                         warnings NOT to fiddle with that.  So where do
> >                 I go from here ?
> >                          I don't wanna loose my pictures or email
> >                 addresses, by a total
> >                         re-install from the Feisty Cd.
> >
> >                         thanks in advance
> >                         --
> >                         Anthony J Brow <tbrow at tpg.com.au>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> >
> >
> >
> >
> >         --
> >         andremangan at gmail.com
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > andremangan at gmail.com
> --
> Anthony J Brow <tbrow at tpg.com.au>
>
>


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