On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Sreeji K Das wrote:
> Hi Sreangsu
>
> mmmm...... 'read-only' in lilo.conf means mount the file system read only
> during boot-up. Normally once the fsck is done (in the system startup
> script), the file system would be remounted read/write. & as you pointed
> out, you'd face quite a lot of problems if root partition is mounted
> read-only.
>
Thanks for clearing it up, I thought a system always mounts the root
partition read only, come what may. I stand corrected now.
sreangsu
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