Re: [tlug] Computer fails to boot

["David Bernat" <dbernat@example.com>]

"Johan Berntsson" <johan@example.com> wrote:

>You probably have to remount the hard disc with read-write
>permissions. Try something similar to: sudo mount -o remount,rw
>/mnt/hda1
>(try "mount", or check /etc/fstab, first to see where the disc is mounted)

/etc/fstab as currently written:

\proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# Entry for /dev/sda1 :
UUID=9b6119b9-a271-4e66-af2d-9ba2fb3509c4 / ext3
nouser,relatime,errors=remount-ro,atime,auto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 1
# Entry for /dev/sda5 :
UUID=6298b9dd-6c63-41a2-a9f3-7f2e19cd2b52 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660
user,utf8,atime,noauto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 0
/dev/sdb1 /home/david/foomnt auto
nouser,atime,auto,rw,nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
/dev/sdc1 / auto users,atime,auto,rw,nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0

/etc/mtab as currently written

/dev/sda1 / ext3 rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 0
proc /proc proc rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0
/sys /sys sysfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0
varrun /var/run tmpfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=0755 0 0
varlock /var/lock tmpfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=1777 0 0
udev /dev tmpfs rw,mode=0755 0 0
devshm /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,gid=5,mode=620 0 0
securityfs /sys/kernel/security securityfs rw 0 0
binfmt_misc /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc binfmt_misc rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0
0
/dev/sdc1 /home/david/<mount\040point> vfat rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0

the results of running sudo mount -o remount,rw /mnt/hda1

ubuntu@example.com:~$ sudo mount -o remount,rw /mnt/hda1
mount: can't find /mnt/hda1 in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab

Does errors=remount-ro point to part of the problem?