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Re: (newbee alert) cant save changes to edited scripts.



On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 12:03:25AM -0400, Greg Teigue wrote:
> damn gooses!
> what on earth could be causing / to -ro?  could it be in the openboot?
> this problem is obviously well out of my league, but it must be in the
> openboot as far as i can figure.  it can't be scsi drives...too many with
> the same problem and yet work fine elsewhere (not as /).  it can't be the
> disty.  it must therefore be in my physical hardware set up (i boogered it)
> or in the way the machine thinks/expects the hardware to be (i boogered it).
> can't replace me, i am out of warranty, so i guess it's off to learn more
> about openboot and plugging hardware into a sparc.

As I said, it is not read-only. The kernel thinks it is mounted
read-write, and that pretty much says it all.

Does the command "touch /newfile" work for you?

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