As long as we can write to a few places (e.g. /etc, /var, /tmp) it's OK if the root filesystem is readonly. Remove the fatal error if the mount fails. Also clean up the mount call a bit - MS_MGC_VAL hasn't been required since kernel 2.4... --- loader/init.c | 4 +--- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/loader/init.c b/loader/init.c index 18ff83b..39bade0 100644 --- a/loader/init.c +++ b/loader/init.c @@ -767,9 +767,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv) { ret = setdomainname("", 0); printf("trying to remount root filesystem read write... "); - if (mount("/", "/", "ext2", MS_REMOUNT | MS_MGC_VAL, NULL)) { - fatal_error(1); - } + mount("/", "/", "remount", MS_REMOUNT, NULL); printf("done\n"); /* we want our /tmp to be tmpfs, but we also want to let people hack -- 1.7.4 _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list