Re: mounting disk as read-write after boot.

[Arto Jantunen <viiru@debian.org>]

Frank Samuelson <sam@milagro.lanl.gov> writes:

> I installed a system with the RedHat-XFS disks.  
> It works great.  All file systems are xfs.
> 
> But when I compile my own kernel (2.4.17 with xfs patch)
> and install it,  and reboot,
> the root disk stays in read-only mode.  Obviously
> at some point the bootup just stops.  No syslog error
> message are available (nothing is written).
> 
> XFS is compiled in (with quota support). It is obvious that the kernel 
> mounts the root disk (which is XFS) and reads its contents on bootup, but 
> it never switches it to read-write.
> 
> Any suggestions would be very helpful.  Thanks for the great 
> file system.

Add "rw" to the kernel command line. 

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Arto Jantunen