From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Percival Subject: Re: problem with root filesystem Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 09:13:16 +1100 Message-ID: <1142460796.9059.11.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <26d3a31c0603150617g22cac272g990d8313c3b4ae99@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <26d3a31c0603150617g22cac272g990d8313c3b4ae99@mail.gmail.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: linux-omap-open-source-bounces@linux.omap.com Errors-To: linux-omap-open-source-bounces@linux.omap.com To: Linux OMAP Open Source List-Id: linux-omap@vger.kernel.org G'Day, > i followed newbie guide and i mounted the root filesystem using the NFS. i > have given read/write access to that folder to all in the exports file .but > i am unable to create single directory in the target .why is it so ?? how to > overcome this problem . i have down loaded the root filesystem from the > following website http://linux.omap.com/pub/filesystem/rootfsosk.tar.bz2 There are a few possible causes of this, but the most likely is that you are mounting the filesystem as read-only; make sure you have `rw' in the `bootargs' environmental variable in u-boot. Here is what I set them to when using NFS: setenv bootargs console=ttyS0,115200n8 noinitrd ip=on root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=${MY_IP}:${PATH_TO_ROOTFS},nolock saveenv If that is not the problem, check the permissions as they are set on the host system: it is possible, however unlikely, that you have them set up in some strange way (eg -r-xr-xr-x). -- Matthew