On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 02:27:01PM -0400, Dave Stubbs wrote: > So, if the above isn't too much of a run-on sentence, my question > is: Is there a parameter I can pass to the mach kernel from grub to > tell it to mount the root device read-only? Most of the docs that > I've seen seem to apply to the now-deprecated (if I read correctly) > serverboot method of starting things up. There is hardly anything > at all about directly loading mach from grub. Also, it seems that > ctrl-C doesn't work to exit processes. For instance, if apt-get > gets lost, I have to crash the VM and reboot to get control back.
I haven't had much success with vmware. It would be interesting to know if newer versions fix that. Anyhow: add --readonly to the ext2fs.static line in your grub startup. You shouldn't need it, though. Tks, Jeff Bailey -- learning from failures is nice in theory... but in practice, it sucks :) - Wolfgang Jaehrling
