On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 02:12:53PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> The problem is in the /etc/rcS.d/S10checkroot.sh script, it gets an
> error when it goes to remount the / fs rw (after the filesystem is
> declared clean).
> 
> "Cannot change data mode or remount
> mount / not mounted already or bad option".
> 
> Unfortunatly, the script doesn't stop the booting process when it can't
> mount / rw so it goes along and things don't work because / isn't
> mounted rw.  
> 
> I can manually mount / rw with:
> 
> 3 mount -n -o rw,remount -t ext3 /dev/mapper/raid--1-root /

I added a script to /etc/rcS.d that runs this immediatly after the
S10checkroot.sh script, just so that I can get the machine up.

> I tidied up /etc/fstab (which looked like a dog's breakfast) last night,
> but it still looks OK to me.  I didn't change the options, just tried to
> line up the columns a bit.
 
Here's my fstab:


# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type> <options>                    <dump><pass>

proc /proc      proc    defaults                                        0 0

/dev/mapper/raid--1-root / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro,data=journal  0 1

#/dev/sda1 /boot        ext3    defaults,data=journal       0 2
LABEL=boot /boot        ext3    defaults,data=journal       0 2


/dev/mapper/raid--0-home_crypt /home    ext3    defaults,data=journal       0 2
/dev/mapper/raid--1-usr  /usr   ext3    defaults,data=journal               0 2
/dev/mapper/raid--1-var  /var   ext3    defaults,data=journal               0 2
/dev/mapper/raid--1-var--local_crypt /var/local ext3 defaults,data=journal  0 2
/dev/mapper/raid--0-var--tmp_crypt /var/tmp ext3 defaults,data=journal      0 2
/dev/mapper/raid--1-swap_crypt none swap sw                                 0 0
/dev/hda /media/cdrom0  udf,iso9660     user,noauto                         0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto            rw,user,noauto                      0 0


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