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 is ro and works fine.
Name Flags Part Type FS Type [Label] Size (MB) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- sda1 Boot Primary Linux 15360 sda2 Primary Linux swap / Solaris 1024 sda3 Primary Linux 133000*
On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 2:00 AM, Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@shellworld.net> wrote:
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.
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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. -- David J. Haines djhaines@gmx.com