error fstab

[Richard Hughes]

On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 17:53 +0000, donpay at comcast.net wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I recently install Fedora 4 on a new AMD 64 computer. Two major
> errors  
> 
> 1. The Kernel did not support my video card  Nvidia 4 

You mean at all, or no 3D? This isn't a HAL issue btw, you might want to
try http://www.fedorafaq.org/

> 2 fstab was corrupted.
> 
> I was able to use the text mode for the install and change the run
> level at first boot to install a new kernel with yum. Once I was in
> the gui I edited fstab with gedit and saved the file.

Why did you do it manually?

>  On the next boot I found that the system could not see this file.
> With the repair program I was able to look in the file system but
> could not find the file. I have two computers running Fedora 4 one a
> i386 and this one running the 64 bit version. Except for this they are
> setup the same. I used the i386 computer to help me in editing the
> fstab. I started an install of Fedora 4 and reinstalled the fstab file
> and backed out. I did not format any of the drives and was able to
> start the Gui again. Fstab is still messed up. How should I fix did
> problem as now I can not use my CDRW drive.

I don't think this is a HAL error. You might want to try the
fedora-users IRC channel.

Richard.