On 03/05/2018 08:45 PM, Eric Sandeen wrote: > On 3/5/18 10:42 PM, Randy Dunlap wrote: >>>> It's a new OS/installer. OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, which is their bleeding edge >>>> rolling updates release. >>> Hrmph. A lot of things go into this behavior, it may not be a kernel change at >>> all that has made it show up now... >> Yes, it could be that wonderful systemd or something else. > > I think I'd pursue a parallel track of bugging SUSE about the issue... ;) > > (I don't think the kernel will ever just downgrade an rw mount request to > ro, or skip an ro->rw transition silently... leaving it ro does seem > like an init bug, but *shrug* init long ago transitioned into deep magic.) More info: :( This problem happens when booting my own custom 4.16-rc3 kernel. If I boot the OpenSUSE-supplied (4.15.7) kernel, the / fs is remounted rw later on. So I'm more or less back to "what am I doing wrong"? thanks, -- ~Randy