Root file system mounted read only

[Joseph C. Lininger]

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Ok, try checking the following things. Some of this seems basic, but
since gentoo is very "do it yourself" you will want to check it anyway.

1. Which release of gentoo are you using? If it is not a recent one, you
sometimes have to pass a boot argument to get it to use udev in favor of
devfs.
2. emerge -a udev
3. Disable devfs in the kernel. I believe you already said you did this
one.
4. Finally, after making sure all of the others are in place, check
/etc/fstab and ensure there is an entry for your root filesystem there,
and that the "ro" option is not in the fourth collumn.

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It's not one damn thing after another, it's the same damn thing over and
over. (History repeats itself)
Joseph C. Lininger
jbahm at pcdesk.net
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And so it came to pass that on Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Doug Lawlor said

> Hello all, after a long laps in time I am rebuilding my linux box and
am
> having a problem with my root file system being mounted read only
instead of
> being mounted read/write. I have been doing some looking and e2fsck -p
tells
> me the file system is clean when I scan it using the system rescue cd
from
> www.sysresccd.org. I have been noticing that devpts is being mounted
> although it is disabled in the kernel which by the way is 2.6.11. I am
truly
> at a loss here on what to do about this. I have ran into a similar
problem
> in the past and am not sure how I fixed it. The distribution is gentoo
and
> is set up to use udev.
> The file system is ext3 and is on partition /dev/hda3. I am using lvm
for
> /usr, /var, /home, /tmp and /opt.
> I know this is all kind of sketchy at 4:30 in the morning so any help
would
> be well appreciated.
> Glad to be back on the list again.
>
> Doug
>
> Doug Lawlor,
> Email: dlawlor at warp.nfld.net
> Skype: dlawlor1971
>
>
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