Re: unable to use a read-only root with 3.8

2005-11-25 Thread Chris Kuethe
On 25/11/05, Josi M. Fandiqo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Also the system is probable to suffer electrical failures and since OBSD > > is contained in a CF card I become very interested in running it over an > > unique read-only partition. > > > > The first option was add the "ro" flag to the fst

Re: unable to use a read-only root with 3.8

2005-11-25 Thread José M. Fandiño
> Also the system is probable to suffer electrical failures and since OBSD > is contained in a CF card I become very interested in running it over an > unique read-only partition. > > The first option was add the "ro" flag to the fstab file, but it's ignored > and the system leaves the root fs in

Re: unable to use a read-only root with 3.8

2005-11-25 Thread Stuart Henderson
--On 25 November 2005 12:36 +0100, JosC) M. FandiC1o wrote: The first option was add the "ro" flag to the fstab file, but it's ignored and the system leaves the root fs in "rw" mode. The second (and desesperate) option was add "mount -o ro /" to /etc/rc.local which seems cause a kernel panic (no

Re: unable to use a read-only root with 3.8

2005-11-25 Thread knitti
On 11/25/05, Josi M. Fandiqo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > is it possible to have a root fs in read-only mode with OBSD? of course it is. there should be numerous postings regarding OpenBSD and CF cards, especially (but not limited to) running on Soekris boxes. Sometimes there is also flashdist men

unable to use a read-only root with 3.8

2005-11-25 Thread José M. Fandiño
Hello list, I'm in a situation where I must configure a couple of soekris boxes (net4801) with very minimal services (pf and syslogd sending all logs to a remote server), they will be unattended and various thousands of kilometers away. Also the system is probable to suffer electrical failures