1. Which release of gentoo are you using? 2005.0 2. emerge -a udev done 3. Disable devfs in the kernel. I believe you already said you did this one. Devfs is disabled. 4. Finally, after making sure all of the others are in place, check /etc/fstab and ensure there is an entry for your root filesystem there, and that the "ro" option is not in the fourth collumn. No "ro" option in the forth column. Column 4 only contains "notime". This problem truly has me stumped. Looks like I am going to have to visit the gentoo forums on this one. Thanks for the advice all the same. Doug Doug Lawlor, Email: dlawlor at warp.nfld.net Skype: dlawlor1971 -----Original Message----- From: speakup-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of Joseph C. Lininger Sent: Friday, August 05, 2005 7:35 PM To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. Subject: Re: Root file system mounted read only -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ok, try checking the following things. Some of this seems basic, but since gentoo is very "do it yourself" you will want to check it anyway. - -- It's not one damn thing after another, it's the same damn thing over and over. (History repeats itself) Joseph C. Lininger jbahm at pcdesk.net Verification: 5eab38a77ac40416e075be8f50607ff7 And so it came to pass that on Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Doug Lawlor said > Hello all, after a long laps in time I am rebuilding my linux box and am > having a problem with my root file system being mounted read only instead of > being mounted read/write. I have been doing some looking and e2fsck -p tells > me the file system is clean when I scan it using the system rescue cd from > www.sysresccd.org. I have been noticing that devpts is being mounted > although it is disabled in the kernel which by the way is 2.6.11. I am truly > at a loss here on what to do about this. I have ran into a similar problem > in the past and am not sure how I fixed it. The distribution is gentoo and > is set up to use udev. > The file system is ext3 and is on partition /dev/hda3. I am using lvm for > /usr, /var, /home, /tmp and /opt. > I know this is all kind of sketchy at 4:30 in the morning so any help would > be well appreciated. > Glad to be back on the list again. > > Doug > > Doug Lawlor, > Email: dlawlor at warp.nfld.net > Skype: dlawlor1971 > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (MingW32) iD8DBQFC8+KXJ6dqn0mqPbARAiFXAKCJa9jcJZQps9ieVvdEfocQ2yzQYwCeKJbd rjexUfN1sNRAU+YW8Pim5RM= =o3kg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.10.1/64 - Release Date: 8/4/2005
