On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 06:34:13PM -0500, Chris Jones wrote: > > > I have a two-week old Kubuntu 8.04 installation that is now failing > > > to boot. ... > IIRC, in a "normal" boot process, / is initially mounted read-only then > remounted rw. > > Follows the mounting of other partitions defined in /etc/fstab .. which > should include /home.
else, likely you've messed up lilo.conf, grub's list or whatever bootloader you have, to mount on / something else than the intended root partition. Or your HDD is failing, errors have been detected and only / is mounted, and stays ro. Try booting from a (Live)CD or a rescue FD/USB disk and check the HDD and bootloader config. HTH -- paolo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
