On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 15:55 -0700, Adam Wynne wrote:> I am having a problem where my newly cloned system (created using
> pxelinux) boots up with the filesystem mounted read-only. It is then
> impossible to log in.
>
> This is what I have done so far:
>
> I boot the server using pxelinux. Then there is a script in the
> ramdisk that is be used to create the filesystem (ext2), mount
> everything up, get a tar file containing all files from an identical
> system, and untar the files. Then I installed the bootoader to the
> MBR using lilo -M /dev/hdc.
Er, and when you reboot it's coming up read-only?
> As far as I can tell, there are no settings in lilo.conf or fstab to
> set the filesystem to be mounted read-only.
Well, it's completely dependent on what's in your initrd and your
initscripts.
And it has absolutely nothing to do with pxelinux, from the sound of
things.
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Peter