On Friday, 26 May 2023 06:30:23 BST Philip Webb wrote: > Thanks to both respondents for their advice. > > I solved the problem by changing Fstab col 6 for '/' to '1', > which forces a boot-time Fsck. Apparently, there was some e-grunge > in the file system, which the check cleaned up. > After that '/' was mounted RW & I could proceed.
Yes, this configuration[1] is necessary to be able to check the root fs at boot, otherwise the default is to mount it as read only if any errors are encountered. [1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Installation/ System#Creating_the_fstab_file
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