On Sat, 2001-09-29 at 02:20, Colin Walters wrote: > Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hmm, I'm pretty sure I had xfsprogs installed when I started using XFS for > > the > > root fs here, but it only came up read-only so I changed yaboot.conf. Here's > > the fstab entry: > > > > /dev/hda11 / xfs defaults 0 0 > > > > It's possible that I had 1 or 2 for the last digit at that time, could that > > have been the problem? > > I think one problem that people commonly run into is that the default > ext2 options field for / reads: > > defaults,errors=remount-ro > > or something like that. But XFS doesn't understand errors=remount-ro, > and barfs (and ironically mounts the FS read-only). The solution is > to just use "defaults" for the XFS options field.
That was it, it's now working fine with read-only in yaboot.conf. Thanks. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
