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archrax
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 Posted: Mon Dec 02, 2013 2:47 am Post subject: Root partition is booting as read only |
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Hello all you wonderful gentoo people. I hope you can help me...
I've just finished building a new hardened no-multilib 64 bit machine but I have this problem;
-The root partition mounts read only and I have to remount it manually in order to write to it.
-None of my other partitions are mounted automatically.
I've read through the forum but none of the previous solutions appear to work for me.
-My build is 64 bit so the LB_DAF option isn't relevant.
-I've compiled in DEVTEMPFS support and selected automount.
-In case it was a fsck problem I booted with this disabled but it didn't help.
I can see a message flashing by briefly before boot that the root partition has been detected and it is being mounted as ro.
I am using an initramfs.
I am using grub2.
Here is my /etc/fstab
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/dev/sda1 /boot ext4 noauto,noatime 1 2
/dev/sda2 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/sda3 / ext4 noatime 0 1
/dev/sda4 /opt ext4 noatime 0 0
/dev/sda5 /var ext4 noatime 0 0
/dev/sda6 /home ext4 noatime 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,user 0 0
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This is my /var/log/dmesg
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EXT4-fs (sda3): couldn't mount as ext3 due to feature incompatibilities
EXT4-fs (sda3): couldn't mount as ext2 due to feature incompatibilities
EXT4-fs (sda3): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode: Opts: (null)
VFS: Mounted root (ext4 filesystem) readonly on device 8:3
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Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
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Hu
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It is normal for root to mount as read-only. The system init process should remount it as read-write later on, and is also responsible for mounting your other filesystems. You need to debug why those steps fail or are skipped. Are there any steps that report failure after the on-disk init system takes over?
Why do you mount three different partitions onto /opt? |
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archrax
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| Posted: Mon Dec 02, 2013 11:58 am Post subject: |
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Thanks for the reply Hu.
Er, not mounting /opt 3 times. Was falling asleep last night when I wrote post - fixed. 
I've checked that the root service is in the boot runlevel but thanks for the pointer. I will do some more digging. |
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archrax
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| Posted: Mon Dec 02, 2013 10:59 pm Post subject: |
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Gave up in the end despite lots of digging around.
I've found that the easiest way to build a Gentoo system is to not go for optimizing everything you can in menuconfig right at the start.
Started with the minimal functioning configuration (SATA controller only) and then took it from there, adding in functionality incrementally, compiling and testing etc.
Happy now with my working system. |
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