[Ralph] > There should be a hint written as a comment in /etc/fstab that some > mount options modifying the rootfs only have an effect via bootflag > or initrd !
For most flags, it does not matter. The initrd mounts the root filesystem read-only, but early in the boot process, an init script runs something like 'mount -o remount,rw /', and 'mount' reads /etc/fstab and calls the kernel with all the right flags. The reason this doesn't work for 'data=' is because of a restriction in the kernel ext3 driver, where you cannot change your 'data=' parameter in a 'remount'. This leaves you with a read-only system at boot time, because the remount,rw fails. It is also a bit tricky to fix, given that 'mount -o remount' always reads /etc/fstab, which you cannot edit until your filesystem is read-write. (On the machine in question, I'm just glad I had a serial console through a Portmaster, since it was unable to start sshd.) -- Peter Samuelson | org-tld!p12n!peter | http://p12n.org/
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