I installed gentoo in a vbox vm as guest. It boots successfully but is mounted write protected.
I didn't see anything in dmesg that I recognized as pointing to the problem. Thought it might be a timing issue during boot processes and so tried to remount rw with `mount -o remount,rw /dev/sda3 /' with the message that it cannot since it is write protected. Suspected some doltishness on my part in /etc/fstab, but if so I could not see it. Cannot run sshd since it requires writing the keys etc so sshd will not start. I can log in as root and my user but cannot make any changes. <Stopping this post to boot with systemrescueCD so I can post my fstab.> cat /etc/fstab <trimmed> # <fs> <mountpoint> <type> <opts> <dump/pass> # NOTE: If your BOOT partition is ReiserFS, add the notail option to opts. /dev/sda1 /boot ext2 noauto,noatime 1 2 /dev/sda3 / ext4 noatime 0 1 /dev/sda2 none swap sw 0 0 /dev/cdrom /media auto noauto,ro 0 0 ------- ------- ---=--- ------- ------- How can I go about finding the source of the problem?
