From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266547AbUHINDx (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Aug 2004 09:03:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266550AbUHINDx (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Aug 2004 09:03:53 -0400 Received: from omx3-ext.sgi.com ([192.48.171.20]:27834 "EHLO omx3.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266547AbUHINDw (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Aug 2004 09:03:52 -0400 Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 06:03:59 -0700 From: Paul Jackson To: "R. J. Wysocki" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [Problem] 2.6.8-rc3: usb-storage devices are read-only (NOT related to iocharset) Message-Id: <20040809060359.5be7c11f.pj@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <200408082208.02328.rjwysocki@sisk.pl> References: <200408082157.35469.rjwysocki@sisk.pl> <200408082208.02328.rjwysocki@sisk.pl> Organization: SGI X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.10claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I've been mounting my vfat /boot/efi elilo (this is on an SN2, which uses ia64 boot conventions) boot partition read-write by doing: mount -o remount,rw /boot/efi after it comes up mounted read-only. Does that help? This is on 2.6.8-rc2-mm2. -- I won't rest till it's the best ... Programmer, Linux Scalability Paul Jackson 1.650.933.1373