Both disks were bootable. One failed. How hard can it be even though the system had no cd drive?
I removed the failed hard disk and it just would not boot. The system insisted on mounting the file systems on the disk which was no longer present.
It allowed me to go into maintenance mode and fix the problem. But the root file system was read only. No matter how hard I tried, I could not fix /etc/fstab.
I am sure that there will be an option in grub or somewhere which would have helped me. However, that is not a very useful option for a person who now needs the help of the dir command to program in Python.
I had to disconnect the cd drive from another system, connect it to this one. Boot in recovery mode, fix the fstab file, etc.
I am not about to buy another cd drive. However, having finally understood the automount, not a single partition will be mounted in fstab unless absolutely essential.
This does bring up the question - why is automount not used more often? Any drawbacks?
Something more to learn.
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