Filesystem mounting as read-only

drowbot · n00b Joined: 23 Dec 2004 Posts: 29 Location: Tulsa, OK USA

I may have just answered my question, but I want to make sure.

I just finished the stage 3 install (I have no net connection right now) and everything went fine. But when I reboot, I get an error saying the my root partition couldn't be remounted as r/w. Here is my partitioning scheme:

d_m · Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2004 5:37 pm Post subject:

The "bootable" flag (set through fdisk) shouldn't have anything to do with the partition mounting read-write versus read-only.

Look for "ro" or something like that in /etc/fstab. If you still have this problem, post /etc/fstab (sanitized if need be) here--the problem is either that you are trying to mount a read-only device (i.e. CD-ROM) read-write, or that you're fstab file is messed up.

drowbot · n00b Joined: 23 Dec 2004 Posts: 29 Location: Tulsa, OK USA

I don't have my fstab on hand right now, but it's pretty basic, so here it is from memory:

d_m · Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2004 6:48 pm Post subject:

Hmmm...

Could you be booted in single-user mode? That would mount / as read-only.

You can always try something like "mount -a" as root to remount all partitions with the normal options. If that's your fstab, / should come up read-write.