Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 30 Dec 2003 10:10:10 +0100 | From | Karel Kulhavý <> | Subject | Re: Can't mount USB partition as root |
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On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 06:49:51PM +0100, Tomas Szepe wrote: > On Dec-29 2003, Mon, 18:33 +0100 > Karel Kulhavý <clock@twibright.com> wrote: > > > > You'll need to load the usb modules using initrd ramdisk, then switch root > > > to the usb device to continue booting the system. > > > > This is the problem #2. I am not able to remount /. "device or resource busy". > > How do I remount the "/"? > > /sbin/mount -o remount,rw /
bash-2.05b# mount /dev/hda4 on / type xfs (rw) none on /dev type devfs (rw) none on /proc type proc (rw) none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw) /dev/hda1 on /boot type ext2 (rw,noatime) none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) bash-2.05b# mount -o remount,rw /dev/sda1 / bash-2.05b# mount /dev/hda4 on / type xfs (rw) ^^^^^^^^^ none on /dev type devfs (rw) none on /proc type proc (rw) none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw) /dev/hda1 on /boot type ext2 (rw,noatime) none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
bash-2.05b# mount --version mount: mount-2.12 bash-2.05b# cat /proc/version Linux version 2.6.0 (root@oberon) (gcc version 3.3.2 20031022 (Gentoo Linux 3.3.2-r3, propolice)) #4 Mon Dec 29 12:20:39 MET 2003
When doing find / after that, the IDE disk goes crazy, not the USB one. So that mount doesn't lie and nothing is really remounted (and no error message issued). Is this how things are supposed to work?
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