On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 07:39:50AM -0600, DG wrote: > The partitioning step walks you through to this point, showing that > the root partition is /dev/sda3 (if you are following the same > scheme). So the syslinux line with root=/dev/sda3 ro is correct. I'm > not sure about the ro vs rw, but mine is ro and works fine. > > Name Flags Part Type FS Type [Label] Size (MB) > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > sda1 Boot Primary Linux 15360 > sda2 Primary Linux swap / Solaris 1024 > sda3 Primary Linux 133000* > > > > On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 2:00 AM, Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > The line syslinux.cfg leaves as root=/dev/sda3 ro if the example in the > > beginner's guide is followed needs to be changed to: > > root=/dev/sda1 rw > > I am having further problems with the archlinux installation but these are > > off topic for this message. > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > jude <jdashiel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Adobe fiend for failing to Flash > > > > You always want to mount root read-only until such time as the system itself remounts read-write. This is by design. IIRC, it's related to the fact that you can't fsck a disk mounted read-write, thus the "-R" option for fsck. -- David J. Haines djhaines@xxxxxxx
