I'm installing Ascii->Beowulf on a separate hard disk, but obviously would like to make my current disk bootable as well.
I happen to do a bit of editing of /etc/fstab # nano /etc/ftab When I try to save the edit: Error writing /etc/fstab: Read-only file system Yet: # ls -la /etc/fstab -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6178 Jan 12 2019 /etc/fstab Here's the problem: $ mount | grep sdb1 /dev/sdb1 on / type ext4 (ro,relatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered) ... So I did: # mount -o remount,rw / This gives me: $ mount | grep sdb1 /dev/sdb1 on / type ext4 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered) But still can't install GRUB: # grub-install bash: grub-install: command not found I will run # e2fsck -p -f and then reboot and try to install Grub again. But given the problem might be a damaged hard disk, safest would be to concentrate on getting my system working on the new disk before experimenting with the old to get its GRUB working. Incidentally, in pursuit of this problwm I encountered a site: http://cdbug.org/file-system/linux-error-writing-read-only-file-system.php The page title ls: "Linux Error Writing Read Only File System". A pop-up that cannot be dismissed insisted I download a php automatic repair utility before being able to read more of the page. What I did read was that a reason for the error might be invalid entries in my Windows registry. I suspected malware and ran away rather than download the utility. Haines Brown _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
