Stuck in a boot loop after editing fstab (i think)

[Piiiiiiiiiiiiiii]

I followed this tutorial in at attempt to add a network share http://geeks.noeit.com/mount-an-smb-net ... pberry-pi/
However, now when I reboot, it's stuck in a loop and never stops rebooting.
Is there a way for me to fix this without wiping the system?

[DougieLawson]

Is this NOOBS/Raspbian or plain Raspbian?

[Piiiiiiiiiiiiiii]

It's NOOBS/Raspbian

[DougieLawson]

OK.

Hold [SHIFT] while you boot and that starts the NOOBS recovery system.

There's a config/cmdline editor as part of that recovery system. You want to edit your /boot/cmdline.txt (on partition #5) to change

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dwc_otg.lpm_enable=0 console=ttyAMA0,115200 kgdboc=ttyAMA0,115200 console=tty1 root=/dev/mmcblk0p6 rootfstype=ext4 elevator=deadline rootwait

to

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dwc_otg.lpm_enable=0 console=ttyAMA0,115200 kgdboc=ttyAMA0,115200 console=tty1 root=/dev/mmcblk0p6 rootfstype=ext4 elevator=deadline rootwait init=/bin/bash

just add that extra init= stuff on the end of the line (don't change anything else).

Reboot and you'll get a black screen with a single user $. That's a root shell, which means everything you do runs like it's been prefixed with sudo and careless commands could completely destroy your system.

mount /dev/mmcblk0p6 / -o remount,rw
cd /etc
nano fstab
sync;sync;sync
/sbin/reboot

if it doesn't reboot, wait ten seconds then pull the power. Those sync commands mean nothing is going to get broken.

Reboot holding [SHIFT] again and use the NOOBS recovery system to undo the changes to your cmdline.

[Piiiiiiiiiiiiiii]

Thank you, i manage to get to the file and removed my changes, but it's still stuck in the bootloop.
Now I am wondering what else I might have changed since it's been working for a little bit. I might have installed some SMB related package.

Aslo, i realized that mounting the SD card under the ubuntu VM that I have is a much faster way for me to get to fstab file.

[DougieLawson]

Aslo, i realized that mounting the SD card under the ubuntu VM that I have is a much faster way for me to get to fstab file.

Ah, sorry my crystal ball was offline . Doing anything to a Raspberry SDcard using any other Linux system is always easier. Booting a RPi from another SDCard and mounting the duff one in a USB reader works as well.