On Wed 04 Jan 2012 08:42:48 AM IST, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: > 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. >
I got the answer from linode community in case anyone is interested, there's some bug in xen/linode with 3.1 series kernels. I was advised to try 3.0 series and it works. -- Nilesh Govindarajan http://nileshgr.com
