Bug#251373: it was an /etc/fstab problem

[László 'GCS' Böszörményi]

* Laszlo 'GCS' Boszormenyi <gcs-guest@users.alioth.debian.org> [2004-06-13 21:54:05 +0200]:

> Anyway, I believe it
> was a problem with your /etc/fstab. When the kernel boots, it mounts the
> root partition read-only, and if no root= option is present (lilo always
> has one), then it reads /etc/fstab and get the partition from there.
 I just missed the whole explanation: when the kernel boots, it mounts
the root filesystem read-only to be safe with fsck etc. But later in the
boot, it remounts the root read-write, and that's where you experienced
the problem you had, because the partition to remount read-write was
read from /etc/fstab wrongly.

Cheers,
Laszlo/GCS