Perhaps I'm not getting into "emergency mode" because I keep getting this response:

bash: mkdr: command not found

When I type "exit" I'm back at the root # prompt and then it's a "reset" to start again.

Regards,

Ewen

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I must have made a typo somewhere because I succeeded in getting into emergency mode, the mkdir command was carried out and the boot proceeded. It stopped with this statement:

Filesystem not auto detected. Trying to mount with AES256.
/dev/sda1: no such device or address

Snookered again!

Regards,

Ewen.