From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from ndonti.dynodns.net (adsl-208-190-202-169.dsl.kscymo.swbell.net [208.190.202.169]) by chiba.3jane.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 7AFE02007F02 for ; Fri, 25 Jan 2002 15:57:55 -0600 (CST) Received: (qmail 11660 invoked from network); 25 Jan 2002 21:57:44 -0000 Received: from ndonti.ndonti.net (192.168.1.2) by 0 with SMTP; 25 Jan 2002 21:57:44 -0000 Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 15:58:13 -0600 From: Naresh Donti To: gentoo-announce@gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-announce] Read Only file system. Message-ID: <20020125215813.GA30775@ndonti.dynodns.net> References: <000601c1a5ea$41da4b40$0201a8c0@exciter> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <000601c1a5ea$41da4b40$0201a8c0@exciter> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i Sender: gentoo-announce-admin@gentoo.org Errors-To: gentoo-announce-admin@gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-announce@gentoo.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.6 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: gentoo-announce@gentoo.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Gentoo Linux-related announcements List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: X-Archives-Salt: d6dc5a8d-96d0-4fbc-a647-7cdc7931ac5d X-Archives-Hash: d86ef6385911cd5cbeec69378abd4ab6 You have options specified that do not apply to the kind of fs you are tring to mount. like specifying notail for ext2. Post your fstab, and we can all look at it and help you. On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 04:50:08PM -0500, Martin wrote: > Hi everybody, > > After looking back at my /etc/fstab, everything seems ok to my eyes. > The problem happens when the script checkroot starts. When it tries to > remount / in read-only to fsck it, I got a message like that > mount : bad option or / was is not mount (Something like that... I knew I > should take it in note). > > Any idea? > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Adam Elliott" > To: > Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 8:47 AM > Subject: Re: [gentoo-announce] Read Only file system. > > > > On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, Dan Armak wrote: > > > > > On Friday 25 January 2002 14:46, you wrote: > > > > Sorry for posting this here... > > > > > > > > I have just finished installing the base system. When I reboot, my / > is > > > > read-only and /boot doesn't seems to be mount properly (not mount at > all). > > > > Does anyone experience this problem? > > > > > > > /boot isn't mounted unles you do it yourself explicitly; this is a > feature > > > not a bug, so that your kernels/boot info can' be harmed by anything > that > > > happens to the rest of your system. > > > > Since / is read-only, it indicates that something's not going right in > > startup. Did you edit your /etc/fstab ? If so, is there a typo in there > > somewhere? I had this exact problem this morning, coincidentally enough. > > > > Hope this helps. > > -Adam > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > gentoo-announce mailing list > > gentoo-announce@gentoo.org > > http://lists.gentoo.org/mailman/listinfo/gentoo-announce > > _______________________________________________ > gentoo-announce mailing list > gentoo-announce@gentoo.org > http://lists.gentoo.org/mailman/listinfo/gentoo-announce -- Naresh Donti ndonti@ndonti.dynodns.net