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l0st_s0ul
 Post subject: Help! Nothing is working
PostPosted: Tue Nov 14, 2006 6:05 pm 
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I have followed the instructions at the bottom of post on here:

http://www.linode.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2501

I created a Finnix config profile, but it wont boot. when I start with my normal profile & then try to lish to it, so i can fix my fstab, it tells me system is read only. It wont let me save changes to my fstab. Please help!

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PostPosted: Tue Nov 14, 2006 6:43 pm 
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You can just boot with init=/bin/bash in most cases, and then remount the root filesystem read/write like so:

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mount -o remount,rw /

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