Re: Initial partitions

> > [1] I don't why my system always reboots in "read-only" mode now; > > Umm, what kernel were you running before? Debian 1.3, from a Walnut Creek CD-ROM dated late last year. It was one of those "6-CD set!" deals; I bought the bundle so I could install the best on my personal systems, yet sti

Re: Initial partitions

> [1] I don't why my system always reboots in "read-only" mode now; Umm, what kernel were you running before? The kernel has defaulted to mounting the root read-only for a *long* time (before debian-1.3, I thought), and then remounting it in the rc scripts -- grep shows: /etc/rcS.d/S10checkroot.s

Initial partitions

I upgraded to libc6 and hamm this weekend... and had my entire root partition flagged "readonly" by an unknown mechanism. This got me cursing and thinking[1] Ideally the issue should never come up, but hard disks fail. Hard disks are replaced as hardware is upgraded. Occasionally things get