Re: [Rule-list] New Images using kernel 2.4.18-4

[Feeley]

On Tue, 21 May 2002, Michael Fratoni wrote:

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> New slinky images are available.
> http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/rule/slinky/slinky-v0.2.4/
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> Something's changed in the kernel, and I haven't had time to figure out 
> what it is. The root filesystem used to be writtable, now it gets mounted 
> read only. That's no good for what we are doing. If anyone has any ideas, 
> I'm all ears. I included a copy of the kernel config in the above 
> directory.
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> We used to get a message: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem)
> Now we get:
> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly
> 
> It's already hours past when I had intended to call it a night, so I'll 
> hope that someone answers this before I get back in front of this machine 
> tomorrow night. ;)

Possibly rdev could be used to set rootflags to "ro" ?  See man rdev.  
It's supposed to be deprecated and bootloaders are supposed to do the job 
instead.

-Oisin