ZipSlack only uses read-only filesystem

Bamse123 · 08-13-2004, 09:51 AM

I was browsing the web with Firefox some hours ago when the machine just totally froze, and there was nothing I could do. The cursor didn't move, hd activity stopped etc. After some 20 seconds I just had to reboot the computer the hard way.

After this my ZipSlack (Slackware 10.0) has only operated in read-only mode. In other words, it uses a read-only filesystem, eventhough I pass "\linux\vmlinuz root=/dev/hda5 rw" to loadlin.exe. And when we're talking about ZipSlack that means the umsdos filesystem.

Still the kernel messages on boot-up say:

Quote:

Testing root filesystem status: read-write filesystem

It doesn't matter whether I'm on root or my user, everything is non-writable. This means I can't use e.g. Firefox, and I'm typing this on Windows 98 right now.

The kernel is 2.4.26 default generic one.

Regards,
Bamse

320mb · 08-13-2004, 10:03 AM

\linux\
what are the permissions for this directory??

has your /etc/fstab changed in any way........IE--are the permissions for your partitions set like they should be???

Bamse123 · 08-13-2004, 12:40 PM

Quote:

\linux\
what are the permissions for this directory??

You mean the permissions of the whole filesystem? From the perspective of DOS, linux\ has no permissions at all, since it's a single user OS.

Everyone got teh root. I guess the permissions from Linux's side are ok...?? I can check that, of course (if it's necessary).

Code:

/etc/fstab

/dev/fd2         /                umsdos      defaults         0   0
/root/swapfile   swap             swap        defaults         0   0
/dev/cdrom       /mnt/cdrom       iso9660     noauto,owner,ro  0   0
/dev/fd0         /mnt/floppy      auto        noauto,owner     0   0
devpts           /dev/pts         devpts      gid=5,mode=620   0   0
proc             /proc            proc        defaults         0   0

Uhhum

. What should I see here? Some mounts defined in ZipSlack by default... There is the swapfile, cdrom, floppy drive... I haven't laid my hands on fstab, the partitions or mounts.

Hey wait a minute... what is that fd2??

Regards,
Bamse

Bamse123 · 08-13-2004, 12:55 PM

FIXED

I changed the /dev/fd2 to /dev/hda5, of course, since it's my root partition. I have no idea why it had fd2 there, and was that the cause of the problem, but fixing it solved this. Now it works again.

Regards,
Bamse

gnashley · 08-15-2004, 02:13 AM

fd2 is a generic device. you could put /dev/root also and it will work anywhere.
for a universal line something like this will work with any file system.
/dev/root / auto defaults 0 0
But if you are going to be using your ZipSlack much then you'll want to fix your fstab. backup first.
See www.amigolinux.org for some interesting ZipSlack-based HOWTO's and downloads.