i made a change to the /etc/fstab that looked perfectly fine until I rebooted the system (CentOS 6) running as a virtual machine.  The system did not start, there was a Kernel panic, and using the single boot mode did not provide any access to the system.  I changed the "/" partition to a UUID number after changing the volume name.  By any account, I am still not clear why this failed, the syntax looks sound.  This is something I have done in the past.

Anyway, I could have given up here and reinstalled the OS since this was a fresh build, but I wanted this to be a teachable moment.  Fortunately, this was time well spent.

Resolution
These are the steps i took to resolve this.

• Download the CentOS-6.5-x86_64-LiveCD.iso.
• Mount the ISO to the system
• Reboot the system to the ISO
• Open a terminal window

Once here I wasn’t exactly clear what to do next, since fdisk clearly sees the hard drives, but these are logical volumes.  I will need to mount a logical volume.

• vgscan (use this to list the volume groups, look for the volume that needs to be mounted)
• vgchange -a y (activate all available volume groups)
• lvscan (scan for logical volumes, and displays that the devices are now active)
• mount /dev/my_vg/my_lv /mnt
• vim /etc/fstab (correct the offending lines)
• reboot

vgscan
vgchange -a y
lvscan
mount /dev/my_vg/my_lv mnt
vim /etc/fstab
reboot

Upon reboot, the system came back up as expected!

Source(s)
http://www.linuxwave.info/2007/11/mounting-lvm-disk-using-ubuntu-livecd.html