Re: [arch-general] syslinux material in beginner's guide

2012-09-14 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 14.09.2012 16:10, schrieb David J. Haines: > You always want to mount root read-only until such time as the system > itself remounts read-write. This is by design. IIRC, it's related to the > fact that you can't fsck a disk mounted read-write, thus the "-R" option > for fsck. As far as I can se

Re: [arch-general] syslinux material in beginner's guide

2012-09-14 Thread David J. Haines
On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 07:39:50AM -0600, DG wrote: > The partitioning step walks you through to this point, showing that > the root partition is /dev/sda3 (if you are following the same > scheme). So the syslinux line with root=/dev/sda3 ro is correct. I'm > not sure about the ro vs rw, but mine

Re: [arch-general] syslinux material in beginner's guide

2012-09-14 Thread DG
The partitioning step walks you through to this point, showing that the root partition is /dev/sda3 (if you are following the same scheme). So the syslinux line with root=/dev/sda3 ro is correct. I'm not sure about the ro vs rw, but mine is ro and works fine. NameFlags Part TypeFS Ty

[arch-general] syslinux material in beginner's guide

2012-09-14 Thread Jude DaShiell
The line syslinux.cfg leaves as root=/dev/sda3 ro if the example in the beginner's guide is followed needs to be changed to: root=/dev/sda1 rw I am having further problems with the archlinux installation but these are off topic for this message.