> 
> Bill Studermund told Brad Salai about a method to mount a read only 
> partition:
> >mount /dev/sd1a /
> >should get YOU the root partition (as your root partition is on sd1).
> 
> I think that:
>    mount -aw /
> 
> should also mount the root partion as read/write so that fstab can be 
> modified.

According to man mount, the -a option mounts all fs's of a certain
type. It reads /etc/fstab (which we're assuming is broken, thus this
exercize :-)

I think "mount -u /" will do the job also.

Take care,

Bill