SOLVED: I screwed things up big time. Repair or start over?

[uwmad]

Thanks.

After installing the disk wizard app and grey hole I thought I should reboot the system just for good measure. When I did it drops into emergency mode and gives me a message "cannot open access to console, the root account is locked. See sulogin(8) man page for more details.

I've lost all access to the server and the Internet.

[bigfoot65]

That's not good.

I am willing to bet it's got something to do with a drive not being properly mounted.

Not easy to get things back in order either. A reinstall might be quicker.

If you don't want to do that, then you will need to search the internet for how to remove drives from /etc/fstab via the emergency mode.

[uwmad]

ok, i'll do a reinstall.

I think the problem was with internal hard drive that the install is on. i couldn't figure out how to mount the partition of that drive that has data on it with disc wizard or have it in the greyhole.

[bigfoot65]

i couldn't figure out how to mount the partition of that drive that has data on it with disc wizard or have it in the greyhole.

If this is a separate partition on the OS drive, you can follow the manual instructions to mount it. See adding a second hard drive to your HDA guidance in the wiki.

Even though it's only a partition, the guidance still applies. I have had issues myself using the Disk Wizard, so I prefer the manual method as it gives me more control of the process.

[uwmad]

Just wanted to pop in and say thank you for all the help. Everything has been running smoothly for a few days and the greyhole app picked up everything perfectly.

[bigfoot65]

Awesome to hear.

Happy to help.

Will mark this one as solved.