On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 02:30:41PM +1000, John Clarke wrote:
> I'm trying to so the same thing right now, and I've got *almost*
> everything working. Now when I try to boot from the new drive, I see
> some error messages flash by during boot (they're not logged to syslog
> and don't appear when I run dmesg) saying that it can't write to
> /lib/modules/`uname -r`/volatile because it's a read-only filesystem.
>
> This is happening because the tmpfs that's normally mounted there isn't
> being mounted, and I have no idea why. I don't know where this mount is
> supposed to be done and I'm not having any success finding anything
> useful via Google, and without knowing where it's done I have no idea
> how to fix it.
I've found it. It's mounted by /sbin/lrm-manager (called from
/etc/rcS.d/S07linux-restricted-modules-common), but only if
/lib/modules/`uname -r`/volatile/.mounted doesn't exist. The file does
exist because I copied it from the running system. I did look through
this script earlier but missed it. I can't do any more testing tonight
though, so it'll have to wait until the morning.
John
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