[Cialug] hey kids, It's crazy drives!

[Nathan C. Smith]

I have a centos 4.2 system.  I'm trying to bring it up with an old hard
drive in it (redhat 9) so that I can mount the drive and copy over some
relevant settings (that drive got rooted).

When I boot with both drives installed - the new one as hda and the old one
as hdd, the new one boots correctly, but when it gets to a point where it is
using touch on files, it says the drive is mounted read-only.

What do I need to do to bring the centos 4.2 system up and mount the old
drive as read-only under /mnt/oldmachine?

I tried adding some fstab and mtab settings to indicate the drive would be
present and ro but it seems to happen earlier in the process.  The correct
drive for booting consistently starts at hda and boots centos 4.2 from
there.

Any tips or pointers, I don't think I've ever had this problem before and
the issue seems to be cropping up at a point before I've dealt with it
before.

honestly, no, I haven't researched with Google yet.  Maybe somebody can tell
me this is a 'grub' thing so I will have some direction.  Thanks.

-Nate