The new machine I've built is working well in other ways, I've gone thro' the 'change-root' steps, compiled the kernel -- 6.1.27-gentoo-r1 -- , configured Lilo -- which has never let me down in 20 years -- , created Fstab & rebooted. No problem booting into the new system, except that it insists on mounting the root filesystem 'read-only'.
It's only '/' : the other fs's listed in Fstab are mounted RW & I can edit a test file & save it there ; if I try to do that in /etc , which is on the root partition, it refuses to save it. Also, I can't create a user, as it can't alter /etc . Dmesg shows signs of something wrong ; the gist is nvme 0000:03:00.0: platform quirk: setting simple suspend nvme nvme0: pci function 0000:03:00.0 nvme nvme0: Shutdown timeout set to 10 seconds nvme nvme0: 12/0/0 default/read/poll queues nvme0n1: p1 p2 p3 p4 p5 p6 p7 p8 p9 p10 EXT4-fs (nvme0n1p2): orphan cleanup on readonly fs EXT4-fs (nvme0n1p2): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Quota mode: none. VFS: Mounted root (ext4 filesystem) readonly on device 259:2. Adding 32767996k swap on /dev/nvme0n1p3. Priority:-2 extents:1 across:32767996k SS EXT4-fs (nvme0n1p7): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Quota mode: none. EXT4-fs (nvme0n1p8): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Quota mode: none. EXT4-fs (nvme0n1p9): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Quota mode: none. EXT4-fs (nvme0n1p10): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Quota mode: none. Those are the only mentions of a 'nvme' device (an M2 SSD). As above, I've tested nvme0n1p10 & it's mounted RW. I've tried 'fsck /dev/nvme0n1p2' & Gparted "check" (via System Rescue) ; both report no problem very quickly : fsck : "clean, nn/nn files, nn/nn blocks". Gparted : "completed : calibrate ; check for errors + fix them ; grow fs to fill system". lilo.conf explicitly says 'read-write' twice, incl globally. Could it be some kernel option ? 'grep' shows no 'read_only' or similar. Can anyone offer advice ? -- please read my desciption above carefully. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
