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From: Doug Hunley <doug@hunley.homeip.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: weirdness with the mounting of /
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:44:03 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7284e2210906120944h4abe3074me1b47271fe7cd609@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <58965d8a0906120941m4404ddcy7f6f1472926f91af@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 12:41, Paul
Hartman<paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I think your root is mounted before fstab comes into play... You may
> want to look into the "rootflags" option in your grub kernel
> commandline for passing the mount options for your root partition.
>

That jives with what I'm (slowly) finding on Google as well. It seems
the kernel uses /dev/root when the rootfs is RO. Apparently an initrd
would solve this. Grr...


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  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-12 16:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-12 16:28 [gentoo-user] weirdness with the mounting of / Doug Hunley
2009-06-12 16:41 ` Paul Hartman
2009-06-12 16:44   ` Doug Hunley [this message]
2009-06-12 16:59     ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras

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