System booting in read-only

[Hosalabad]

I have been chasing my tail on this for a few days and I could really use some help.

I have a Centos 7.6.1810 (core) system that has started booting to read-only.

I think this may stem from a fstab mistake, but I can't get back to the file to look at it or try to correct it.

On login I get a " -- myusername: /home/myusername: change directory failed: No such file or directory -- Logging in with home = "/"

/var/boot.log indicates "Failed to mount /"

If someone would point me in the right direction, I would really appreciate it.

[TrevorH]

Boot up, become root, run mount -o remount,rw / and then fix fstab and reboot.

[lightman47]

And, as one 'user with a green username' often suggests: After you change fstab, and BEFORE you reboot, try a mount -a to catch the errors while you can still edit/fix them.

Heh - can't tell you how many times ... until that advice

[Hosalabad]

Thanks for the help.

According to the output from the mount command , fstab doesn't have an entry for / "can't find / in fstab"

cat /etc/fstab comes back with no output.

I salvaged a copy of the fstab from a known good copy of the server, but how can I replace fstab if I'm stuck in a readonly state? Boot from live CD, decrpyt the boot volume and then edit, I guess?

[TrevorH]

how can I replace fstab if I'm stuck in a readonly state?

See my previous post.