issue with write permissions while installing kernel.....

stan · n00b Joined: 15 Jul 2002 Posts: 30

this is what I'm getting.........

rac · Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2002 9:05 am Post subject:

Could this be related to /boot keeps mounting as vfat?
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jondkent · Apprentice Joined: 26 Jul 2002 Posts: 289 Location: London

Hi,

it would also be useful if you could paste the output of the mount command as well if the above link doesn't work for you.

As an aside, there are loads of post like this one and all of them do not post this information so everyone has to guess, which is annoying :evil:

Jon

elzbal · Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2002 2:26 pm Post subject:

Stan, could you please post the output of the following commands?

stan · n00b Joined: 15 Jul 2002 Posts: 30

cat /etc/fstab

arkane · l33t Joined: 30 Apr 2002 Posts: 918 Location: Phoenix, AZ

if the boot partition is mounted read-only, you can tell by opening another virtual terminal (if your on the boot cd) and doing a "mount" command.
you should see something like so:

/dev/hda2 on /boot type ext3 (rw,noatime)

rw means read-write.. if it's readonly it'll read "ro". Don't do this inside of your chrooted environment, because the control is much easier under the boot cd's environment. if you mount your boot partition to /mnt/gentoo/boot, it'll be available in your chrooted environment.
if it's already mounted, and read-only, you can remount it read-write by doing the following command:
mount -o remount rw /mnt/gentoo/boot
(it'll remount it on the fly as read-write)