[parisc-linux] Booting remounting and S10checkroot.sh, the saga of changes to how mount works...

[Carlos O'Donell]

On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 01:36:32AM -0500, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> So I rebooted to test my signal fixes, and I find that I can't boot my
> box anymore. It seems that /etc/rcS.d/S10checkroot.sh was no longer
> doing it's job of remounting / (LABEL=ROOT) rw. I mean it wasn't as if
> it didn't try, the kernel kept saying that I should specify a file
> system type.
> 
> It's not fun when this happens, because you have to boot some sort of
> rescue disk, and hack /etc/rcS.d/S10checkroot.sh!
> 
> The following was required to get my box back up... I don't think it's
> necc, but nor do I understand what's going on here. Is this part of
> those mount/remount changes I saw? :)
> 
> I think I might submit this to 'initscripts' as a "robustifying" patch.

Looks like they know....

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=239735

c.