Re: [tlug] Computer fails to boot

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

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com> wrote:

>$ shutdown -r now

The system continues to send the message that /bin/sh has permission
problems.

/etc/fstab now contains

unionfs / unionfs rw 0 0
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs nosuid,nodev 0 0
/dev/sda5 swap swap defaults 0 0

Disk and filesystems shows

1 partition 292.4 GB /dev/sda1

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no mount point, device not enabled

The changes I make to mount point and enabling the device do not persist
past the next reboot of the computer using a Kubuntu 8.0.4 CD.

Why has the system dropped /dev/sda1 from /etc/fstab and why are changes
continually rejected?