Editing /etc/fstab during startup

[jsf_x35a]

Hi,

I use gentoo linux and I added a line in /etc/fstab for my usb flash drive but forgot to put a newline at the end of the file.

Now during startup while the system is mounting proc, i get a message saying [mtent] warning: no final newline at the end of /etc/fstab. Then it asks me to log in as root. After I edit /etc/fstab using GNU nano, I reaslise that i cannot save it since for some reason it is a read-only filesystem. I also try to press Cntl-D but realise it just reboots my laptop and the same message appears.

Can somebody please tell me what to do?

[Nerderello]

do you have a bootable CD that you can get some sort of Linux up with, then mount the hard disk, then edit the (unused) /etc/fstab ?

Nerderello

[kriss]

you could try to mount / as RW.

Good luck

[variant]

Yes if you read the error message I beleive it tells you howto remount the root filesystem rw

I beleive the commands:

umount -a

and then mount -w -a

will remount the fs rw and you can edit the fstab and put that trailing line in:)

[jsf_x35a]

Thanx guys. I got it