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Re: Cannot mount / as read/write filesystem



On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 02:49:49PM +0200, Roberto Giorgetti wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 09:06:46PM -0400 or thereabouts, Ben Collins wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 11:12:11PM +0200, Roberto Giorgetti wrote:
> > > After a blackout the boot showed me:
> > > 
> > > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly
> > > INIT: Version 2.80 booting
> > > INIT: Cannot execute "/etc/init.d/rcS"
> > > INIT: Entering runlevel: 2
> > > INIT: Cannot execute "/etc/init.d/rc"
> > 
> > Boot with "linux init=/bin/bash", remount rw, and chmod both of these
> > files 755. Then reboot. You should upgrade the sysvinit package, since
> > you have a version that contained this mode bug.
> >
> 
> Ben,
> thank you for your help. Now with your suggestion, I don't
> receive error messages executing any scripts but... the /dev/hda1
> is still mounted read-only. Of course I am not able to umount /
> and to remount it read-write. I only add that running 
> fdisk /dev/hda 
> I receive:

What happens when you run "mount / -o remount,rw" as root? What error
messages, if any are produced? What shows in in the log files when you
do this?

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