Subject: Re: 1.5.1 miniroot broken?
To: Lars Hecking <lhecking@nmrc.ie>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: port-amiga
Date: 07/25/2001 17:41:24
Sorry - just to recap, what command have you tried to remount
/ rw, and what is the output of 'mount'?
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On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Lars Hecking wrote:
>
> > > David Brownlee writes:
> > > > Is anyone interested in testing a simple patch for this?
> > > > You'll need to be able to build your own miniroot...
> > >
> > > Very interested. If I can build the miniroot under 1.5 somehow.
> >
> > You should be able to run a 'make' from /usr/src/distrib
>
> This patch won't solve the fundamental issues I'm seeing:
>
> - miniroot-root is mounted read-only
> - the mount command, AFAIK the only tool at user level to change
> this, cannot remount / read-write
>
> I gave up, made a backup, and tried a fresh install, but the problem
> persists (I did not recreate the partitios under AmigaOS, though).
>
>