Kent Schumacher wrote: > > Karl Bongers wrote: > >> On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 11:53:22AM -0600, Kent Schumacher wrote: >> >>> I get this error: >>> mount: block device /dev/sda6 is write-protected, mounting read only. >>> mount: cannot mount block device /dev/sda6 read-only. >>> This is stirring a memory, but things aren't gelling - anybody have any >>> specific help? >> >> >> >> Are you just doing: >> mount /boot >> You can't rely on /etc/fstab, so you need to specify the partition: >> mkdir /tmp/myboot >> mount /dev/XXX /tmp/myboot >> >> Knoppix probably automounted it and doing smart things? >> Try: >> df >> to see what mounts are present. >> >> > > OK, this was easy to solve once I started looking at the permissions: > > ardvar: ls -l /boot /tmp > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 Oct 17 09:39 /boot -> > /KNOPPIX/boot > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 Oct 17 09:39 /tmp -> /var/tmp > > Thanks for the help. Knoppix really is amazing... > > Whoops, I spoke too soon. Mounting /dev/sda6 on a newly created directory still gets the error... The solution is to add the -o dev option to mount when mounting the hard drive root partition mount -o dev /mnt/sda7 chroot /mnt/sda7 mount /boot mount /tmp lilo life is beautiful _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list