Boot problem after mounting 2nd drive

I am fairly new to Linux so I have no idea what to do about this problem. I followed instructions to mount my Windows hard drive, I can access the drive fine from Linux when I mount it manually each time I boot up but the problem arose when I added the following line to /etc/fstab to automount it:

/dev/hda1/ /mnt/drive2 vfat defaults 1 1

Now Linux starts booting up, then stops dead with:

Checking filesystems
Warning: FAT32 support is still ALPHA.

Any help would be extremely appreciated as I need Linux for my studies.

Juanita

FAT32 alpha support? I can only guess it's a very old kernel.

Boot with init=/bin/sh, modify fstab and mount your partition manually in the mean time.

Sorry I am a very novice user, how do I boot with init=/bin/sh ?
Thanks for your help

At the lilo prompt. Before booting linux hit ScrLock (after the leds has been reset), type in your kernel name (hit tab)

Im sorry but Im still having trouble. My system is set up with 2 hard drives, using GRUB, and I dont have LILO installed. One hard drive contains Windows 98, the other Red Hat 7.2. The only way I can get to a command line is hitting 'c' at the GRUB screen. From there there is a limited number of commands that can be used and I tried a few things but just got errors.

I don't know GRUB sorry. Your RH cd is probably bootable, just get a shell from there and mount your root partition on the hdd to modify fstab.