On Wed 04 Jan 2012 08:35:19 AM IST, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: > I am trying to run a custom kernel with gentoo on linode64, but there's > strange problem I'm facing. > The root always gets mounted read-only, I don't know why. I have this > line in menu.lst: > > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-3.1.6-gentoo root=/dev/xvda rw > > Also, the /etc/fstab line says: > /dev/xvda / defaults,noatime 0 1 > > Everytime I boot with the custom kernel, the root is getting mounted as > read only. The funniest thing is, even after proper shutdown, a disk > error pops up on /dev/xvda, because I see the message during boot. > > Anybody knows how to get this thing working? I don't want to use > linode's stock kernel, the xfs code in it seems to have some bug. > > -- > Nilesh Govindarajan > http://nileshgr.com
Err, correction, it's linode1536 64 bit. -- Nilesh Govindarajan http://nileshgr.com
