[arch-general] syslinux material in beginner's guide
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. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- jude <jdashiel@shellworld.net> Adobe fiend for failing to Flash
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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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.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- jude <jdashiel@shellworld.net> Adobe fiend for failing to Flash
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
Am 14.09.2012 16:10, schrieb David J. Haines:
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.
As far as I can see, this is entirely obsolete today. By default, the root file system is fsck'ed in initramfs before it is even mounted, and the fsck during boot is then skipped. ("By default" means that mkinitcpio now has the 'fsck' hook enabled by default - unless you changed it yourself, this doesn't apply to old installations.) With this scheme, I see no reason why the 'ro' is necessary.
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