I don't see why a separate 'export ROOTFLAGS' is necessary. init already
exports ROOTFLAGS right up at the top, which is sufficient to export all
later settings of it. If this doesn't work it's a shell bug, but one I
can't reproduce in isolated testing on Intrepid.
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WUBI Ubuntu 8.04, access
Agostino points out that 'export ROOTFLAGS' was introduced in initramfs-
tools in intrepid, so this was needed in hardy but is no longer needed
in intrepid.
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WUBI Ubuntu 8.04, access permissions on /host folder cannot be changed
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/236975
You received this bug
I think that Andrew is referring to a Hardy installation, where export
ROOTFLAGS is required. This was corrected in Intrepid (0.92a), so there
is no need for step 1 and 3 in 8.10. In intrepid, it should be
sufficient to pass any required rootflags argument in menu.lst (step #2)
and run
Thank you Andrew, these last instructions worked very well for me (I
applied them on the 12 windows XP machines with WUBI 8.04 that i have in
the computer lab of the school i work for as a teacher).
Georgios Kolomvos
Patras, Greece
Andrew Flegg:
A slightly neater way, rather than modifying
Thank you for the update.
If I'm not wrong, this would make it easier for end-users to tweak
permissions if you don't put a password on the grub menu entries (which
you should do anyway, as otherwise unprivileged users could be dropped
to a root shell)
I know it's a bit of
A slightly neater way, rather than modifying root_locale is to add a new
root_opts file:
1) Create /usr/share/initramfs-tools/conf.d/root_opts containing export
ROOTFLAGS [ this is the root cause of step 2 not working alone]
2) Append rootflags=gid=115,fmask=113,dmask=002 to the end of the
Hello,
I am now facing the same problem. In the related question (#35664)
Agostino Russo mentioned: You might have to pass them as a kernel boot
parameter in menu.lst via rootflags=YOURMOUNTOPTIONS
Would it be possible for someone to provide a working an example of
this? To be honest, I've
The mounting for /host is done in the initramfs, which makes this tricky
(for me anyway) to track down. I've found a workaround for the problem:
Edit /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/local-premount/root_locale
Append ,umask=022 to this line:
echo
** Changed in: ubuntu
Status: New = Invalid
** Changed in: wubi
Status: New = Invalid
** bug changed to question:
https://answers.launchpad.net/wubi/+question/35664
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