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On Wed 04 Jan 2012 08:42:48 AM IST, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: |
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> On Wed 04 Jan 2012 08:35:19 AM IST, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: |
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>> I am trying to run a custom kernel with gentoo on linode64, but there's |
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>> strange problem I'm facing. |
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>> The root always gets mounted read-only, I don't know why. I have this |
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>> line in menu.lst: |
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>> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-3.1.6-gentoo root=/dev/xvda rw |
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>> Also, the /etc/fstab line says: |
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>> /dev/xvda / defaults,noatime 0 1 |
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>> Everytime I boot with the custom kernel, the root is getting mounted as |
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>> read only. The funniest thing is, even after proper shutdown, a disk |
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>> error pops up on /dev/xvda, because I see the message during boot. |
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>> Anybody knows how to get this thing working? I don't want to use |
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>> linode's stock kernel, the xfs code in it seems to have some bug. |
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>> Nilesh Govindarajan |
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>> http://nileshgr.com |
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> Err, correction, it's linode1536 64 bit. |
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I got the answer from linode community in case anyone is interested, |
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there's some bug in xen/linode with 3.1 series kernels. I was advised |
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to try 3.0 series and it works. |
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Nilesh Govindarajan |
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http://nileshgr.com |
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