On Mon, 2020-06-15 at 12:14 -0400, Robert McBroom via users wrote: > On 6/15/20 12:57 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > On 6/14/20 9:40 PM, Robert McBroom via users wrote: > > > On 6/14/20 3:12 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > > > On 6/14/20 9:39 AM, Robert McBroom via users wrote: > > > > > Copied my fedora 29 system to an SSD partition. Booting takes me to > > > > > Grub-rescue> > > > > > > > > > > SuperGrub2 2.04s1 finds the system and boots it but it is read > > > > > only.?? Knoppix reads and writes to the system with no problem. > > > > > Used Knoppix to fix /etc/fstab and grub.cfg. I think grub-install > > > > > is needed from fedora but have to be able to write to the drive. > > > > > > > > You need to provide more details. What do you mean it's read only? > > > > And grub-install write to the raw hard drive, not to a filesystem. > > > > A Fedora live boot or a net install rescue boot is a good way to fix > > > > things. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Any attempt to write to the system gets a message that the file > > > > system is read only. grub2-install /dev/sda fails trying writes to > > > /boot/grub2/i386-pc. ls -l gives a list that looks completely normal > > > with the expected permissions owners and groups. > > > > Oh, right, it wants to set up the modules too. > > What does "mount" show? Try running "mount -o rw,remount /". Or use > > "/boot" instead if you have a separate partition for it. > > > > The simplest method though is still to download a Fedora net install > > image and use the rescue mode. It sets everything up for you to > > chroot to the installed system and run whatever you want. Just be > > aware that it will do a full relabel on reboot. If you're sure you > > didn't change anything important, you can remove the /.autorelabel > > file before rebooting. > > _______________________________________________ > > > Apparently there is a hardware problem with the Samsung EVO SSD drives > rumor of a rom fix but haven't found it. Totally strange that NTFS > partitions on the drive are writeable. My system disk is a Samsung EVO SSD (2TB) and I'm unaware of any problems with it. Smartcontrol shows no errors. poc _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
