Boot partition remounted read only by emerge system

bdis · n00b Joined: 25 Jun 2002 Posts: 4

I'm a newbie so this may be a stupid Q.
I'm runnin through the 1.4RC1 install following the intructions exactly. (using the stage1 packege off the cd). When running emerge system I get a meesage saying /boot cannot be remounted with write access. When I try to exit out of the chroot, umount /mnt/gentoo/boot, then mount -w /dev/hda1 /mnt/gentoo/boot, it still mounts it as read only. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Created following partitions:
/dev/hda1 100M boot partition primary EXT3
/dev/hda2 512M Swap partition primary Linux Swap
/dev/hda3 9.2 GB partition primary EXT3

steveb · Advocate Joined: 18 Sep 2002 Posts: 4564

rac · Posted: Mon Sep 30, 2002 6:23 pm Post subject:

Also see if mount says /dev/hda1 (/boot) is ntfs? and strangest /boot mount prob are relevant.
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bdis · n00b Joined: 25 Jun 2002 Posts: 4

I ended up using Disk Doctor to zero out my hd. After that, the install went fine. For some reason, fdisk wasn't creating the partitions correctly.

After creating the partitions with fdisk, I ran partition magic to see what was actually created and it was an old windows partition. Like I said, running Disk Doctor and zeroing out the drive and then repartitioning with fdisk fixed the problem.

Again, thanx for all the help. Seems like there is a common partitioning problem going around though.