Re: Cannot mount / as read/write filesystem
I answer to myself (and also to Ben and Hakan) saying that after
two reboots everything seems to be come back to the normal
situation!
Now I immediately upgraded all, included sysvinit package.
Thank you again.
Roberto Giorgetti
On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 12:24:47PM +0200 or thereabouts, Roberto Giorgetti wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 09:33:16AM -0400 or thereabouts, Ben Collins wrote:
> > 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?
>
> Sorry for answering you so late, but I had a bad family problem.
> Now I came back to my severe SPARC problem. Yes, if I run:
>
> mount / -o remount,rw
>
> / is mounted read-write. Then I issued:
>
> chmod 755 /etc/init.d/rc
> chmod 755 /etc/init.d/rcS
>
> but when I reboot, root (/) is still mounted as read-only and I
> receive a lot of error messages complaining about /proc mounted
> as read-only and then something coming from modprobe. By the way
> how can I stop the log of booting in order to read what is
> scrolling down on the screen?
>
> Besides after the reboot /etc/init.d/rcS still come back to 644!
>
> Thank for your help.
>
> Roberto Giorgetti.
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