I was burning a CD today, and I had some trouble, so as a troubleshooting step I ran k3bsetup. This has created more trouble for me. When I ran it, I unchecked the modify fstab box so that it wouldn't mess up supermount (I am running Mandrake 9.1), but I allowed it to make permissions changes to executables and everything else it does. Now, my system outputs this and hangs (it should be noted that bootsplash is turned off):

LILO 22.4.1 Loading 2420-1custom...............
BIOS data check successful
Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel
INIT: version 2.84 booting
mount: only root can do that
grep: /proc/cmdline: No such file or directory
Setting default font (lat0-16): [ OK ]

Booting, please wait...

Welcome to Mandrake Linux 9.1
Press 'I' to enter interactive startup

Running DevFs daemon [ OK ]
mount: only root can do that

<< system hangs>>

It appears to me that only root is being allowed to mount filesystems. Can anyone help me change that back? Help would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Post up your fstab

/etc/fstab

if you can 't access it, try using a knoppix CD or something of the sort (like a boot floppy, bootdisk.com I beleive)

Also... post up what arguments lilo passes to your kernel.

I discovered that /bin/mount had UID 501 (me) as its group and owner, as opposed to root. After changing that the system booted fine. Thanks anyway!