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Bug#517336: native-install doesn't set the file system writable



On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 12:37:11PM +1100, William Leslie wrote:
> Package: hurd
> Version: 20080607-6
> 
> The native-install script installed by crosshurd 1.7.33 exits after echoing:
> 
> Checking if your filesystem is really writeable..
> failed to identify system

Well, that it should fail with a nicer error message, true.
 
> when the --readonly flag has been passed to the /hurd/ext2fs.static
> module on the grub command line.

But in the end, the check is there to see whether the file system is
writable.  It's not native-install's business to fix up your broken
(read-only) system.

That's why I asked you to file a bug on the Hurd - probably runsystem
should figure out that the user passed --readonly to ext2fs.static for
some reason an still make the file system writable.  Or at least error
out/cleary communicate to the user that their grub setting are not ok.


Michael



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