Last night I updated my os. Everything seemed fine but today when I tried to boot it up- nothing doing.
Below is a sample of what I got:
Starting udev
testing root filesystem status - read only
Remounting root device with read-write enabled
/etc/rc.d/rc.S: line 113:/sbin/mount:
no such file or directory

Attempt to mount root dev as read-write failed .. serious problems...

at Lilo prompt line
Lilo: mount root+/dev/hda1 rw


I'm afraid I'm not technically up to understanding what to do in this situation.
I can see my home files by using a live Knoppix disc but I'm still at a loss.
Will anyone help me please?

What you did was upgrade from 5.0 to 5.2, without taking care of the details. There is a wiki page that explains what you should install/remove for upgrading with no problems: http://wiki.zenwalk.org/index.php?ti...NGES_AND_HINTS

You can chroot from a live CD and do the upgrading right.

Thank you (again) Gapan,
I suspected that's what had happened but I still don't know how to rescue my system. Perhaps I should just cut my losses and re-install using what back up is current and living without the rest.
Thanks again, starkadder.

You can rescue your system if with a live cd you mount your root partition somewhere (like /mnt/myroot), chroot in that partition ("chroot /mnt/myroot" as user root) and use netpkg cli from there.

Hi everyone and thanks for your help.
I solved the problem by cutting my losses, I re-installed and went to 5.2. Everything is back to normal.
Thanks again.