[SWLUG] 2 Help! problems booting

[Jonathan Wright]

neil at nwjones.demon.co.uk wrote:
> After doing this I cannot boot properly. It gives a message about Fsck having failed something being read only and prompts me for a root password. I can then log in and read the disk.
> 
> Can someone please tell me what is wrong and how I can fix it.

Did you remove the mount statement from fstab? Sounds like it may be 
trying to check the disk/drive, which is can't.

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