Problem getting loaded up with fedora core 5!

[Marcel Oats]

Hi, just a thought: could you grab grml, boot into it using the 
speakup options?  It should mount your filesystem, allowing you to 
edit fstab.  I know grml is Debian based, but it might still work.

At 12:41 Ay M 22/06/2006, you wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>Any help with the below would be great.
>I added an entry into my "stab file" while in root. It was to activate a usb
>floppy drive. Now I can no longer boot up normally into linux but am told I
>have a file system error and I can hear  the usb floppy drive being
>activated. I think fedora is looking for a linux file system on a floppy
>disk. It is giving me choices to do a repair of the file system or just
>reboot which only brings me back round to the same situation again. I really
>need to edit the stab file but can't get access to it even though I am in a
>kind of root terminal. Good old speakup is still up and running however so
>at least I have speech to do what I need.However I only have read only
>permissions on anything in this area so can't do much in the way of changing
>anything.
>
>Here is the line I entered in the stab file:
>/dev/sda    /mnt/usbfd       auto            noauto,user 0   0
>
>I know I goofed on this one,*smiles*.
>
>Any help would be appreciated.
>
>Paul.
>
>
>_______________________________________________
>Speakup mailing list
>Speakup at braille.uwo.ca
>http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup