Ok, good. I will look when I have a spare 0.5 hours or something as
well.

Mostly I wanted to know I had not pulled a thinko.

On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 13:46, Rex Young wrote:
> >I have baselayout-1.8.6.10, kernel 2.6.0-test3-mm1, and 
> >util-linux-2.12.
> >Upon installing util-linux-2.12, I was no longer able to 
> >remount my root
> >filesystem for checkroot to work on boot. I really should be able to
> >just "mount -n -o remount,ro /" or use /dev/root, or whatever is in
> >/proc/mounts, /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab.
> >
> >Only when I use the old-style block device name (ie /dev/hde5) do I get
> >something other than "device not mounted" or some such. If I 
> >use that, I
> >get complaints of the filesystem being busy.
> >
> >Has anyone else encountered this problem?
> 
> 
> Yes.  This also ocurred using 2.6.0-test2-mm5.  I can remount it 
> manually, but that's a little annoying.  When it prompts for the 
> password for maintenance, I enter it then issue:
> 
> mount -o remount,rw /dev/root /. 
> 
> I've also used /dev/hde7 to reference the device when remounting it and
> had no problem.
> 
> I was intending to try to get the the root (no pun intended) of the matter
> sometime in the next few days.  I spent quite a while searching through
> the forums, finding no solution there.
> 
> -rex
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