From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 15:47:25 +0100 From: Olaf Hering To: Michael Schmitz Cc: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: apmd and other archs Message-ID: <20001124154725.A24888@suse.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: ; from schmitz@mail.biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de on Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 07:40:04PM +0100 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Thu, Nov 23, Michael Schmitz wrote: > The init scripts of all distributions but SuSE handle this just fine > (mount -n). At least SuSE seems to mount the root fs rw from the start, > which causes all sorts of pain if you want to boot into a RedHat system > using the SuSE rescue disk. No idea how SuSE copes with readonly root fs. It doesnt work per default, some guys did some hacks to the boot scripts to have a readonly root fs. Well, but most users want to story something on their hard drives so it doesnt work per default. Have a look at support.suse.de, there is (proably) some info about readonly root. Gruss Olaf -- $ man clone BUGS Main feature not yet implemented... ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/