From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Vitaly Fertman Subject: Re: Can't mount / at boot as of kernel 2.4.21 Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 15:40:44 +0300 Message-ID: <200312081540.44274.vitaly@namesys.com> References: <20031207062944.GB1925@beavis> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <20031207062944.GB1925@beavis> Content-Disposition: inline List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: smiths@alumni.cse.ucsc.edu, reiserfs-list@namesys.com On Sunday 07 December 2003 09:29, Wes Gray wrote: > My root is reiserfs, and works fine for kernel 2.4.20, but as of 2.4.21 > during boot it mounts readonly OK, but when it goes to remount read-write, > the command: > > mount / -n -o remount,rw > > fails with "mount: / not mounted already, or bad option". Is there smth related in 'dmesg'? what does 'cat /proc/mounts' say? > This problem is very similar to FAQ question #11, but the error message > is different and I've tried "reiserfsck --rebuild-sb" and it said my > superblock was fine. I'm wondering what other "sanity checks" were added > to the kernel though. > > It is possible there is an error in the boot scripts and it is trying > to remount an fs that is not mounted at all, but this is not a > problem with previous kernel versions. Did it become pickier about this? > > I am running Gentoo with reiserfs-v0.3.0.3 and reiserfsprogs-v3.6.8. this is pretty old reiserfsprogs version, you should upgrade it to the 3.6.11. -- Thanks, Vitaly Fertman