Re: grub question read-only

2007-04-19 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 04:30:35PM -0700, michael wrote: > On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 13:42:16 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote > > On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 01:17:28PM -0700, michael wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > > > > What would I do if I actually wanted to boot and have my > > > system / mounted re

Re: grub question read-only

2007-04-19 Thread michael
On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 13:42:16 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote > On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 01:17:28PM -0700, michael wrote: > > [...] > > > > > What would I do if I actually wanted to boot and have my > > system / mounted read only? > > when / is remounted, the flags in /etc/fstab are used, so t

Re: grub question read-only

2007-04-19 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 01:17:28PM -0700, michael wrote: [...] > > What would I do if I actually wanted to boot and have my > system / mounted read only? when / is remounted, the flags in /etc/fstab are used, so to have / finish up mounted ro, you have to set it up so in the fstab. i think. A

Re: grub question read-only

2007-04-19 Thread Andrew J. Barr
michael wrote: > Hi, > I have this in my /boot/grub/menu.lst file. (pasted below) > I'm wondering whey there is an option "ro" on the main > kernel line, even though the system boots normal rw? The initramfs is mounted read-only I believe, and for the initial mount, your root filesystem is also re

grub question read-only

2007-04-19 Thread michael
Hi, I have this in my /boot/grub/menu.lst file. (pasted below) I'm wondering whey there is an option "ro" on the main kernel line, even though the system boots normal rw? What would I do if I actually wanted to boot and have my system / mounted read only? Thanks! ## ## End Default Options ## t