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From: Naresh Donti <ndonti@××××××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-announce@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-announce] Read Only file system.
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 15:57:55
Message-Id: 20020125215813.GA30775@ndonti.dynodns.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-announce] Read Only file system. by Martin
1 You have options specified that do not apply to the kind of fs you are tring
2 to mount. like specifying notail for ext2. Post your fstab, and we can all
3 look at it and help you.
4
5 On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 04:50:08PM -0500, Martin wrote:
6 > Hi everybody,
7 >
8 > After looking back at my /etc/fstab, everything seems ok to my eyes.
9 > The problem happens when the script checkroot starts. When it tries to
10 > remount / in read-only to fsck it, I got a message like that
11 > mount : bad option or / was is not mount (Something like that... I knew I
12 > should take it in note).
13 >
14 > Any idea?
15 >
16 > ----- Original Message -----
17 > From: "Adam Elliott" <aelliott@×××.EDU>
18 > To: <gentoo-announce@g.o>
19 > Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 8:47 AM
20 > Subject: Re: [gentoo-announce] Read Only file system.
21 >
22 >
23 > > On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, Dan Armak wrote:
24 > >
25 > > > On Friday 25 January 2002 14:46, you wrote:
26 > > > > Sorry for posting this here...
27 > > > >
28 > > > > I have just finished installing the base system. When I reboot, my /
29 > is
30 > > > > read-only and /boot doesn't seems to be mount properly (not mount at
31 > all).
32 > > > > Does anyone experience this problem?
33 > > > >
34 > > > /boot isn't mounted unles you do it yourself explicitly; this is a
35 > feature
36 > > > not a bug, so that your kernels/boot info can' be harmed by anything
37 > that
38 > > > happens to the rest of your system.
39 > >
40 > > Since / is read-only, it indicates that something's not going right in
41 > > startup. Did you edit your /etc/fstab ? If so, is there a typo in there
42 > > somewhere? I had this exact problem this morning, coincidentally enough.
43 > >
44 > > Hope this helps.
45 > > -Adam
46 > >
47 > >
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52 >
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59 Naresh Donti
60 ndonti@××××××××××××××.net