Hello all,

I really haven't touched my linode in over a year... not really sure why I keep paying $20/mth, but having a command line can be pretty damn helpful every now and then.

Regardless, why do I have to set my root device to ro now? Otherwise I have to log into lish and hit "n" when it hangs during boot wanting to preform an fsck.

Running CentOS 5.0

Thanks,

Andrew

edit: I posted this as I was waiting for my linode to come back up running the "ro"... I now see that it re-mounts the root file system in rw mode after it runs the fsck. Why does this option even exist in the config editor then? Possibly for a different distro?

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Init scripts want the disk images to NOT be mounted read/write right from the start, so they can perform things like fsck. After that, it remounts them read/write and the boot up continues.

A while ago, UML seemed to not care about the "ro" flag. More recent UML kernels and Xen do care.

-Chris