On Tuesday 30 September 2003 12:24, Wes Gray wrote: > I am running vanilla sources, and I upgraded from 2.4.19 to 2.4.20 fine, > but when I go to 2.4.21 or 2.4.22, on boot I get an error "Root > filesystem could not be mounted read/write". After that error, lots of > files are not found for the rest of the boot process, but at the end I am > able to log into the system and / is definitly mounted, though some of > the files the boot process is looking for are missing. My / is reiserfs.
I had similar problems. I found out my system was booting with / mount read-only, which it should do, but when it went to mount / read-write it would produce the error above. I would log in a root and run 'mount' and see / was still mounted read only. If I issued 'mount -o remount,rw /', the mount would fail as well, but if I issued 'mount -o remount,rw /dev/sda3 /' it would work. For some reason 2.4.22 had a problem with the way / was defined in /etc/fstab. I tried to define / several different ways in /etc/fstab but to no avail. I never got around to diagnosing the problem any further and backed of using kernel version 2.4.22. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
