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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
-- 
Florian Lohoff		flo@rfc822.org		      	+49-5201-669912
     "If you're not having fun right now, you're wasting your time."

  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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