fstab and lilo.conf

Forum: HD Install
Topic: fstab and lilo.conf
started by: Nils_Europa

Posted by Nils_Europa on July 12 2006,12:20

Hi there!

How can I modify the file system to writable, if the fstab is rewritten at every boot sequence?
With lilo.conf is the same problem.

Posted by roberts on July 12 2006,17:34

Writeable, with dsl-3.x boot with option unionfs,
on prior versions boot with writeable, and most of the fs will be writeable, via symlinks.

fstab is regenerated on each boot, use boot option nofstab to disable.

Posted by Nils_Europa on July 14 2006,10:48

I'm using a frugal installed dsl. There are no boot options at all. Is there any writable configuration file for them?

Posted by Nils_Europa on July 14 2006,12:21

OK. The main problem is that my machine doesn't have any removable media and isn't booting from usb. I've installed dsl on an other computer, but now there aren't any other computers near me.

I have decided to try to copy all directories and symlinks to hda3 and mount dev and proc then chroot to hda3, but midnight is stopping after 56%. So I can't edit fstab so I have only read-only filesystems and I can't run lilo -c.

Posted by roberts on July 14 2006,17:44

Your boot time options are in lilo.conf or menu.lst depending on which used.
There are instructions in the wiki for editing these files to change boot options.

Posted by Nils_Europa on July 14 2006,21:22

I can't edit lilo.conf....................

read-only filesystem