System boot hangs

[ian walker_1]

My system does not boot fully. It seems to hang when trying to mount the file systems. I get a message telling me to "press the Interrupt key or wait for 360 seconds".

Not sure what I should do.. single user mode?

[Neil Wilson_2 · Accepted solution]

Hey Ian

This could be caused by a dodgy entry in /etc/fstab. I've seen something similar with a cdrom entry in /etc/fstab.

Boot into single user mode and edit /etc/fstab using vi.

Comment out or remove the entries for cdrom or anything that is not properly formatted as well. After that reboot and see what happens.

good luck.

[ian walker_1]

thanks neil... seems to have done the trick..