On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 12:03:25AM -0400, Greg Teigue wrote: > damn gooses! > what on earth could be causing / to -ro? could it be in the openboot? > this problem is obviously well out of my league, but it must be in the > openboot as far as i can figure. it can't be scsi drives...too many with > the same problem and yet work fine elsewhere (not as /). it can't be the > disty. it must therefore be in my physical hardware set up (i boogered it) > or in the way the machine thinks/expects the hardware to be (i boogered it). > can't replace me, i am out of warranty, so i guess it's off to learn more > about openboot and plugging hardware into a sparc.
As I said, it is not read-only. The kernel thinks it is mounted read-write, and that pretty much says it all. Does the command "touch /newfile" work for you? -- -----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=------ / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---'
