renamed mount file by accident
 

I am brand new ti linux. My issued laptop was hanging up when I tried to boot. I got it to boot and to prevent it from hanging up again I thought I would rename the file that was causing problems. Well it turned out the mount command is important (duh). I have tried to reboot with system rescue. When the laptop boots up i can't find the directory/drive holding the mount command so I can change it back. Not being familiar with linux in the first place the help sections are not helping much. I have been working on this for 30 hours now and am stumped. Any ideas please

The commands to automatically mount partitions are in /etc/fstab.

When you boot into system rescue you are dealing with two different operating systems. The rescue CD has its own /etc/fstab and you want to repair the /etc/fstab on your hard drive. When you are the rescue system you need to mount your / partition and edit the /etc/fstab on your / partitions. Assuming that you / partition is /dev/hda1 and that it is an ext3 file system then the commands would be:

mkdir /sparrow
mount -t ext3 /dev/hda1 /sparrow
vi /sparrow/etc/fstab

You might prefer to use some other editor than vi. Any editor available on the rescue system will do.

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Steve Stites

error msgs
 

mount wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1,
missing code page or helper program,

I tried this using ext2 and ext3. also sda1 sda2 sdb1

Please supply some more information:

First, I am not clear as to what file you changed (renamed).

Second, while running from a liveCD (rescue system, or whatever) issue the command "fdisk -l" while running as root. Post the results here

Fixed
 

IT guy fixed machine today. Used Slack start up disk to gain access to files. Thanks to those who tried to help a newbie.