Re: Unable to create/save/open/delete files as root

[Gordon Dykes <gordondykes@appleonline.net>]

Remounting the partition using "mount / -o remount,rw" has allowed me 
to work on files again.  Changing the kernel makde no difference.

How do I get the drive correctly mounted during init as almost all
the scrips are failing.  Editing fstab didnt help this.

Your time is much appreciated.  Thanks

At 12:58 pm -0400 26/3/01, Peter Cordes wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 04:22:06PM +0100, Gordon Dykes wrote:
> >  >
> >  >sounds like yet another victom of the broken paulus kernel .config
>  > >
>  > >reconfigure your 2.4 kernel and under Filesystems turn  DEVFS *OFF*
> >  >all of it every devfs option turn it off, not module, off.
> >  >
> >  >then install that kernel and you will be fine.
> >  >
> >  >--
> >  >Ethan Benson
> >  >http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
> >  >ttp://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
> >
> >  I can try that but I cant do anything that involves editing files.
> >  Using a different kernel makes no difference.
> >  The problem is not having any write access to the partition.
>
>  Try booting a kernel other than the one you compiled with devfs support.
>  Or, mount / -o remount,rw.  (make sure you mount / -o remount,ro before
> rebooting, if you used init=/bin/bash.  If you don't, then nothing will and
> you'll need to fsck.)

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