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Hello,

I have a HP MediaSmart EX495 that I converted to Fedora 14/Amahi. It has 2 drives in it: the main drive with the OS and all files, and a second drive that I added with greyhole. I had it set up so that that files were duplicated from the first drive to the second.

The second drive is dead (clicking, etc.) and I can no longer access the hda. It's a headless server, and it's not booting to a useable state.

I pulled the OS drive connected it to my iMac via USB so I could get to my files. They are located in /gh which I thought was weird. Anyhow, I copied most of them off to the iMac so I have them. Now I'd like to get back to a bootable state.

I think I need to edit /etc/fstab and take out the second hard drive, so it stops looking for it on boot. I am thinking that's what's preventing it from booting all the way. Is that right? If so, how do I do that from the iMac? I can open fstab on the iMac but it won't let me change the contents.

I am still kind of a newb so be gentle. Thanks!

I'm not familiar with the minor differences about terminal usage on Mac OS vs Linux, but you're likely not able to edit the fstab because permissions are stopping you.

try doing a sudo before editing the fstab, but just be sure you don't edit a fstab on the iMac by accident (if there is one).

If you load up a live USB of a linux distro, you could also use that to edit the /etc/fstab, but make sure the drive in question isn't broken anyways cuz that would be a futile recovery.
If the OS drive is the broken one, replace it.

Thanks -- I was able to get it working again using a Live CD.