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**seranmca** · 12-30-2005

Hi,
I have a Red Hat 9.0 machine, and I was trying to compile linux kernel 2.4.32 (just for a study) using its source. The compilation was successful and after that due to some reason my / became 'Read Only' .

I tried to remount the root partition and it was successful.

$ mount -o remount -t ext3 /dev/hda1 /

But if I reboot my machine again it becomes 'Read only' and /proc is also not getting mounted.

My /etc/fstab and /etc/mtab files are complete. If I pass rw option to the kernel from grub.conf will it create any harm? Any ideas to fix this problem.

Thanks
Seran

**dylunio** · 12-30-2005

Could you post your /etc/fstab ?

**scm** · 12-31-2005

Does dmesg show any interesting entries?

**anomie** · 12-31-2005

Yep, poke through dmesg, or more to the point:

Code:

dmesg | grep hda1

Filesystem may be damaged and waiting for you to take action.

**seranmca** · 01-02-2006

I found out the reason for this behaviour. The file /etc/rc.sysinit is some how became blank. Long time ago I took an image of these partitions, so I restored the image on a test machine and I copied this rc.sysinit file to this machine. And it is working fine now as it was before.

Thanks for your help guys.

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