KaveriTech Technical Blog

Well, This happens when you have a crashed disk and you have an entry for it in /etc/fstab. Without removing the entry it will not boot up.

when it gives you control-d it puts the / partition in readonly mode. Here is how you can mount the disk in readwrite mode – modify fstab and replace the disk –

mount -o remount,rw /

then edit /etc/fstab …