[arch-general] syslinux material in beginner's guide

[David J. Haines]

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 at 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 at 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.

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David J. Haines
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