From: cwight@twain.ucs.umass.edu (CHARLES C WIGHT) Subject: INSTALLATION / USING mke2fs with SLS Date: 15 Sep 1993 19:59:55 -0400
In article , <> wrote:
>I am primarily posting this to let users whom are still having the clean/dirty
>problem what I found the solutions to be.
>
>My problem was originally that VFS mounted root always saying that it was
>unchecked. If you get .99pl10 or higher, you will need to get e2fsck 0.3. If
>you have less then .99pl10, you wil not be able to mount root readonly. Get
>bootutils and follow these steps:
>
>1) Use RDEV and make your kernel flag read only. This is done by rdev -R
>/dev/xxx 1
>2) edit your /etc/rc file so that the first thing it does is e2fsck -av. If
>you have more than one ext2 drive, run it once for each drive. If e2fsck
>encounters an error, it will not be able to fix it cause you mounted read
>only. Next make your rc file remount root as read/write using the -remount
>flag.
>3) Make sure umount -a works. It should not say that a device is busy. This
>will happen if the umount is earlier and does not remount read only
>4) Create /bin/brc and place in it:
>
>#!/bin/sh
>echo "Unmounting file systems"
>umount -a
>
>chmod 700 /etc/brc
>
>Make sure you use SHUTDOWN only!! reboot and halt do not cleanly exit your
>system.
>
>I wanted to once again thanks all who wrote back to me with your suggestions.
>It is that kind of help which allows us DOS users to trash it for a better
>operating system.
>
>
>
>--
>Eric Levinson
>rcisnet2!root@moon.nbn.com | Home computer (UUCP)
>levinson@vax.sonoma.edu | Vax
>I can also be reached on my BBS system, Color Galaxy Milky Way (415) 883-0696
>