Re: read-only file system after installation

[olafBuddenhagen]

Hi,

On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 06:50:13PM -0500, Miles Thelonius wrote:

> I've just installed Hurd. The boot is ok, or I don't have time to see
> any error message, I get the shell command line. I set the terminal
> type, run 'install-native', but it exists with an error message "Your
> system is not identified". I presume that `uname -s` doesn't work,
> because of 'settrans', which, in its turn, doesn't work and gives the
> message - "/servers/socket/1: read-only file system".

I think this is related to the root filesystem being marked as not
cleanly unmounted for some reason. Try doing a filesystem check on the
Hurd partition from GNU/Linux, and/or remounting the root filesystem
writable after booting in with

   fsysopts / -w

-antrik-