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  • From: Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Mount Issues
  • Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 12:59:18 -0800

Quoting Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>:
<snip>
> I still have no idea why that mount is breaking, but from some
> experiments people did it seems to only happen for people using devfs,
> not on udev boxes.
> Right now the best advice I can give you is to remove the remount line
> from mountall.sh (it's not strictly necessary) and maybe switch to udev
> if you're using only 2.6 kernels.

For those interested that's line 107 of mountall.sh:
mount -f -o remount,rw /

And don't forget to comment out the "&&" for the `echo > /etc/mtab`. ;)

This just happened to our G3 PowerMac, but udev is a bit of a pain to get
working on it with BootX, but we're working on it. Thanks for the summary
Arwed. :)

-sandalle

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