From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MF9rK-0002V8-L3 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:44:06 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1640EE0739; Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:44:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f224.google.com (mail-ew0-f224.google.com [209.85.219.224]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5207E0739 for ; Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:44:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy24 with SMTP id 24so438777ewy.34 for ; Fri, 12 Jun 2009 09:44:04 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=58J0G3nJcDaut3r2h9OLxBAeCJZuqX1DL7TsTNxjz8M=; b=UZSTV+UJVodX4E/n86tqgUMLTQMxQJvnGTGb6MNt/OqdnE1SPzSzS3gvJ9MtQRzOWC gECwo9azaAXdRNkwi0NeVVIE7dO2+AAaS9EkM65e+ufVt1U5HD90hATEoswIHBYd1WQQ U6wGIoRBnLWirMrft9IwGx8x9UorIq8Zpit9U= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=fUIP9RClPzRSt2ThpyUj6NXZfdBeSvZ6sviwBFtAUFfRaXZolSeTnLtiS5Ad8WH7gA FXUpToPDeaGq0REUKScz5dmutFtTvwQ9MdhUdx5lJkvpVQQpNjHWRjOL484pItFyK3+d mHxHRjn/D3wsqrhXN4jG6H0cFLVy9ontBTQ70= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: doug.hunley@gmail.com Received: by 10.210.102.12 with SMTP id z12mr1024024ebb.97.1244825043965; Fri, 12 Jun 2009 09:44:03 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <58965d8a0906120941m4404ddcy7f6f1472926f91af@mail.gmail.com> References: <7284e2210906120928t46c0ddf0kd6cfc702b6a739a9@mail.gmail.com> <58965d8a0906120941m4404ddcy7f6f1472926f91af@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:44:03 -0400 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 6b72e4cc0224c8c7 Message-ID: <7284e2210906120944h4abe3074me1b47271fe7cd609@mail.gmail.com> Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: weirdness with the mounting of / From: Doug Hunley To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 43c068ee-be5f-4691-9104-e136a0642722 X-Archives-Hash: 9f29ee943c40a8ef0e0c1af1f4b8903b On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 12:41, Paul Hartman 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... -- Douglas J Hunley - doug@hunley.homeip.net http://douglasjhunley.com Twitter: @hunleyd