File system went read-only
I had Ubuntu 9.04 on my laptop and then installed Pyppy 4.31 (full installation) on a separate partition. Things were good (not mentioning wireless problems in Puppy) at first but now when I boot into Puppy I get messages that it can't touch anything and the file system is read-only. I have no idea how that happened. I looked at Puppy's fstab and found nothing suspicious. I also changed "defaults" to "rw" for the root partition but nothing changed.
Can it bee that the two OS's affect each other somehow? |
Most probably something in the boot, so the kernel mounts it read only and gives you the middle finger until you fix it.
fsck the disk and check the logs. |
I didn't know puppies had middle fingers. fsck does not return any errors. Log files are mostly empty (I've used Puppy only a little bit).
The file var/log/messages consists of the single line: Nov 21 18:20:30 (none) syslog.info syslogd exiting The file /tmp/udevtracelog consists of the following line: remove_target5:0:0_scsi___ |
You can easily fix the symptoms, but not the disease. No, the two distros aren't affecting one another, unless you've really done something daft, which, unless you built the two with dd or from source (read: waaaaay too complex), you haven't.
What is in /boot/grub/menu.lst (or /boot/grub/grub.conf - its an either/or) |
It's below. Grub is in Puppy's partition. I was able to boot into Puppy a few times before that happened (with the same menu.lst). Something weired is that in Ubuntu, even with root privileges I can't open files like hda1, hda2 in Puppy's /dev folder.
Code:
# GRUB configuration file '/boot/grub/menu.lst'. And here is Puppy's fstab: Code:
/dev/sda1 / ext3 rw 0 1 |
Bugger, its never easy, is it. You don't want to be trying to open puppy's devices via ubuntu, so that not working is no big problem.
A quick question; don't Ubuntu and puppy generally use an initial root disk? Whats on the menu.lst for ubuntu? Can you do a diff between the menu.lst you posted, and the backup referred to at the top on the list? |
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