Before attempting to post a bug to Debian directly, I wanted to ask the people here if perhaps I am doing something incorrectly.
I installed Debian sarge on the sparc64 arch, then went out and grabbed
the 2.6.4 kernel source from kernel.org and built a new kernel. After
trying to boot this kernel, the checkroot.sh script would consistently
fail to remount / into read-only during this section:
if [ "$rootcheck" = yes ]
then
#
# Ensure that root is quiescent and read-only before fsck'ing.
#
if ! mount -n -o remount,ro $rootdev /
then
echo -n "*** ERROR! Cannot fsck root fs because it is "
echo "not mounted read-only!"
echo
rootcheck=no
fi
fi
mount says "you must specify the filesystem type". I modifed the
pertinent line to read:
if ! mount -t $roottype -n -o remount,ro $rootdev /
and it now works correctly. I also had to modify the mount line further
into the script where the root fs is remounted to read-write.
I am running what seems to be an identical version of this script on my
x86 Debian sarge machine, and the -t is not there and it never
complains. Is there a difference between the versions of mount in x86
and sparc64? both of them claims to be mount-2.12 according to
--version.
Any insight into this would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers,
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Brian T Glenn
delink.net Internet Services
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