Sunday, April 13, 2014

Modify FSTAB on CentOS or RHEL 6 on Bootup

Ever encounter a problem when you can't boot due to corrupted or wrong FSTAB entry. Here's a simple fix

Problem:

Solution:

a. At  Grub press any key
b. Press "e" to edit

c. Under kernel parameter Append this command "init=/bin/bash"
d. Press Enter then "b"
e. This will take you directly to #.. Remount the / by typing  mount -o remount,rw /
f.  Edit fstab vi /etc/fstab
g. Save and Reset the system