Does not Finish Booting

[kb55]

Hi

I have a problem ... line ten in my /etc/fstab has a wrong entry and won't let me finish booting into Fedora 6. I tried using one of the text editors in rescue mode bothe in FC6 and Knoppix but to no avail ... permiision is denied when I type /etc/fstab to edit.I also tried usiing Knoppix to rescue my machnie but after it finishes booting the mouse pointer hangs and I cant navigate KDE or anything else for tha matter. I just want to get rid of that bad ine in /fstab. I sure would appreciate some help here.

Thanks,
Ken

[tomcat]

The permission denied problem is caused because you probably forgot to edit the file as root user. When you use knoppix, first of all, you have to switch to superuser (root) in a terminal. Once you did that, you have to mount the fedora partition (e.g. mount /dev/hdc1 /mnt). After that, you can alter the /mnt/etcfstab partition and fix it.

If the mouse pointer hangs, press ALT+CTRL+F1. This will drop you to a command line from where you can change the file with an editor like nano/pico, vi, emacs or using mc.

PS: You posted in the wrong forum-section.