From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 11:08:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 11:08:33 -0400 Received: from sj-msg-core-1.cisco.com ([171.71.163.11]:22929 "EHLO sj-msg-core-1.cisco.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 11:08:25 -0400 Message-ID: <3B8E5791.5BBE92A2@cisco.com> Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 20:41:13 +0530 From: Venkatesh Ramachandran Organization: Cisco Systems India Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore, INDIA X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en]C-CCK-MCD (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-users@cisco.com, rvenky@cisco.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org, brussels-linux@cisco.com CC: Mathangi Kuppusamy Subject: Linux Mounting problem 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 Hello, I am using Redhat Linux 7.1 During reboot, i get the message " Mounting / as readonly" And, it enters into maintenance mode...( & all other steps fail - /proc not mounted, swap not mounted, fsck fails) I did the following : mount -t proc proc /proc fsck /dev/hda1 The following error messages : ERROR : Couldn't open /dev/null (Read-only file system) It goes into a never-ending loop, and never i am able to recover from this problem. Has anyone come across such a problem? How to tackle it? Do we need to use a bootdisk, to get into the read-write mode of root filesystem ? How to change root filesystem from read-only to read-write? This will be of very great help to me and my team. Thanks in advance, Venkatesh.