At the risk of repeating myself, if you wish to examine the running kernel, you might benefit from Systemtap (http://sourceware.org/systemtap/).
/ken On 08/19/2012 10:51 PM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > Gary Dale wrote: >>> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sr0 bs=2048 count=11826176 >> This also fails when booting from sysrecuecd with the same read-only error. > > That kills my theory that there went something wrong in the > operating system. > > Now i am out of ideas, except diviing into kernel debugging in > order to find out what behavior of the drive makes the systems > believe that the medium is not writable. (Get kernel source, > sprinkle kprintf() over the code parts which implement open(2), > compile, rebooti, try dd, look for messages of you kprintf(), > make theory, plant new kprintf(), ... and so on ...) > > > Have a nice day :) > > Thomas > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5032d7f5.7030...@rahul.net