From: Florian Lohoff <flo@rfc822.org>
To: Famille Chauvat <famille.chauvat@free.fr>
Cc: linux-mips@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [Install trouble]
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 21:03:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20000804210304.C313@paradigm.rfc822.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <39847F16.543AA232@free.fr>; from famille.chauvat@free.fr on Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 07:16:38PM +0000
On Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 07:16:38PM +0000, Famille Chauvat wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm working with an Indy station and the corresponding kernel.
> On the bootp() step, i got a message:
> >>>>>>>
>
> creating 100k of ramdisk space... done
> mounting /tmp from ramdisk... failed
>
> I can't recover from this.
> <<<<<<<
Probably this is a kernel with no ramdisk support ? Ah wait - No -
You have booted the kernel with a read-only root - Which means - When
mounting /tmp i tries to write /etc/mtab which is read-only - Try
to append "rw" to your prom console boot line
Flo
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Florian Lohoff flo@rfc822.org +49-5201-669912
"If you're not having fun right now, you're wasting your time."
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-08-06 15:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-07-30 19:16 [Install trouble] Famille Chauvat
2000-07-31 0:03 ` Keith M Wesolowski
2000-08-04 19:03 ` Florian Lohoff [this message]
2000-08-06 15:03 ` Famille Chauvat
2000-08-07 8:16 ` Florian Lohoff
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