[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#588675: / left as /dev/root with non-initrd kernel

[Elliott Mitchell]

From: Petter Reinholdtsen <pere at hungry.com>
> [Elliott Mitchell] wrote:
> > I'm guessing some step is being done by the initial ramdisk scripts,
> > with Etch that step was also done by the regular init script;
> > whereas in Lenny it got removed from the initscripts.
> 
> I am not aware of any changes to initscripts related to the remounting
> of /.  Unless you can come up with more information, I assume the
> change is related to some other package, but do not know which.

I'll have to confess that I'm not entirely certain this bug is with the
initscripts package either. Yet, looking at the situation, initscripts is
by far the most probable cause.

One bit more information, just in case the version wasn't enough of a
clue, this appeared between Etch and Lenny. This also wasn't a problem
when running with the Debian kernel build (I'm thinking something with
the initrd scripts takes care of the remount there).

Hrmm, one more setting that may be required to reproduce, this system
mounts / read-only.


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