RE: [gentoo-user] /etc/init.d/checkroot cannot remount root fs

2003-08-14 Thread Rex Young
>Ok, good. I will look when I have a spare 0.5 hours or something as >well. > >Mostly I wanted to know I had not pulled a thinko. > Since I know it's not just me now, I'll devote a little bit of time to it later tonight. Maybe between us we'll figure it out in short order. I'm not sure that it m

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/init.d/checkroot cannot remount root fs

2003-08-14 Thread Steven Elling
On Wednesday 13 August 2003 16:52, Rex Young wrote: > >With one of the 2.4 series kernels, I noticed that I could not > >issue 'mount > >-o remount,rw /'. I had to issue the full command. > > Same thing here. If it isn't the full command, it won't work. I've used the command as listed above in t

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/init.d/checkroot cannot remount root fs

2003-08-14 Thread Steven Elling
On Wednesday 13 August 2003 14:09, Rex Young wrote: > I'm not sure that it makes much difference, but are you also using > Reiserfs on your root partition? Yes. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] /etc/init.d/checkroot cannot remount root fs

2003-08-14 Thread Shawn
Ok, good. I will look when I have a spare 0.5 hours or something as well. Mostly I wanted to know I had not pulled a thinko. On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 13:46, Rex Young wrote: > >I have baselayout-1.8.6.10, kernel 2.6.0-test3-mm1, and > >util-linux-2.12. > >Upon installing util-linux-2.12, I was no l

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/init.d/checkroot cannot remount root fs

2003-08-14 Thread Shawn
With 2.[56].* beyond some point, I had to use "/dev/root" instead of "/" in checkroot. I guess I'm no stranger to breakage due to inadvisable upgrades. On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 16:38, Steven Elling wrote: > On Wednesday 13 August 2003 13:46, Rex Young wrote: > > >I have baselayout-1.8.6.10, kernel 2

RE: [gentoo-user] /etc/init.d/checkroot cannot remount root fs

2003-08-14 Thread Shawn
Yup. I can duplicate my root on ext[23] and try that too. On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 14:09, Rex Young wrote: > >Ok, good. I will look when I have a spare 0.5 hours or something as > >well. > > > >Mostly I wanted to know I had not pulled a thinko. > > > Since I know it's not just me now, I'll devote a l

RE: [gentoo-user] /etc/init.d/checkroot cannot remount root fs

2003-08-14 Thread Rex Young
>I have baselayout-1.8.6.10, kernel 2.6.0-test3-mm1, and >util-linux-2.12. >Upon installing util-linux-2.12, I was no longer able to >remount my root >filesystem for checkroot to work on boot. I really should be able to >just "mount -n -o remount,ro /" or use /dev/root, or whatever is in >/proc/m

RE: [gentoo-user] /etc/init.d/checkroot cannot remount root fs

2003-08-14 Thread Rex Young
>Yup. I can duplicate my root on ext[23] and try that too. > hmm...I hadn't considered that. Well, I'm not sure that I have sufficient space available in any regard. good luck, and tell me how it goes. -rex -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] /etc/init.d/checkroot cannot remount root fs

2003-08-14 Thread Rex Young
>With one of the 2.4 series kernels, I noticed that I could not >issue 'mount >-o remount,rw /'. I had to issue the full command. > Same thing here. If it isn't the full command, it won't work. >With the 2.6.0-test1 series kernel I could not use any of the devices >(/dev/sda3, /dev/sda3 or /

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/init.d/checkroot cannot remount root fs

2003-08-14 Thread Steven Elling
On Wednesday 13 August 2003 13:46, Rex Young wrote: > >I have baselayout-1.8.6.10, kernel 2.6.0-test3-mm1, and > >util-linux-2.12. > >Upon installing util-linux-2.12, I was no longer able to > >remount my root > >filesystem for checkroot to work on boot. I really should be able to > >just "mount -n