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

[Dave Weis]

If you have it mounted at /mnt/oldmachine, run
mount -o remount,rw /mnt/oldmachine

dave

Nathan C. Smith wrote:
> 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
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