On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 10:57:54PM -0400, Greg Teigue wrote: > reinstalled using *normal* partitioning, ignoring the sparc way. still has > the same result, system will boot and run, just mounts root as -ro. we are > not amused. dmesg sez nothing at all about mounting -ro, or i would have > caught it sooner ( at least i tell myself that). kern.log reveals that root > is mounted -ro but does not state a reason or even mention errors. this > makes absolutely no sense. the /var partition is now @ sda3 and it > mounts -rw. why does it insist on / being -ro?
Initially / is mounted read-only on boot, and the init script remount it read-write after an fsck (if needed). What happens when you do "mount -o remount,rw /" ? -- -----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=------ / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---'
