Hello James, > Joel > Just to clear up, in my earlier email I meant I could mount the drive rw > using your original advice (mount -o remount,rw /) but couldn't get the > changes to checkroot.sh to work. > I have since discovered I was making one of the changes in the wrong place, > you pointed this out as below. > Using the -t $roottype doesn't work, so I removed the $rootdev and > $fstabroot entries and this has resolved the issue. Great news :-) and thanks for feedback (I try here to reproduce but without success)
> My only concern now is if I do another apt-get dist-upgrade will this > re-occur? This is how the problem arose. well, iirc your are already running the last 2.4.26-smp 64bits so the bug is still there. I will so try to find back the Dave's patch I backport in it's time and propose this one. may be would it be still accepted? Awaiting you can: - avoid to update your system, - continue to update but you can mark your iniscripts as hold to avoid to update it( I need to check back how to do it) or you have to take care to apply manually the previous tips before you reboot. - you can also upgrade your kernel to a recent 2.6 (but not yet smp ready even thought I think very soon see parisc-linux.org m-l :) hth, Joel --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tiscali ADSL LIGHT, 19,95 EUR/mois pendant 6 mois, c'est le moment de faire le pas! http://reg.tiscali.be/default.asp?lg=fr