[aclug-L] Re: read only

[Jonathan Hall <jonhall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Make sure the floppy disk write-protect tab is set properly.


On Wed, Apr 12, 2000 at 05:06:10PM -0500, bert wrote:
> until recently i could write to my /dev/fd0
> now, even with root doing the mount, i get:
> mount: block device /dev/fd0 is write-protected, mounting read-only
> when i look at mtab, sure enough it's got ro . . . 
> 
> i'm not sure what i screwed up, but the next lilo boot fails
> letting me know that fsck failed and i need to repair it manually and
> reboot.
> 
> currently, the root file system is mount read-only -- 
> 
> the system says how to remount root to read-write, but how do i 
> repair fsck manually?
> 
> thanks for the help!
> 
> 
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