Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3419 mails)

["Theo v. Werkhoven" <theo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Wed, 11 Apr 2007, by benang@xxxxxxxxxxxx:
[ 8< ambiguous question ]
> The fact that it didn't work with "ro" whereas I needed the root's
> partition to be mounted as "ro". I just explained that it worked with "rw"
> is to elaborate you guys that the driver is actually working. But not if
> it's mounted with "ro". Sorry for the confusion. I just didn't have enough
> experience with Linux in general.

Mounting / ro is not how the FS is meant to be used, so any problem
you encounter (and it won't be just some X app) is your own.
If you want to mount e.g. /bin, /sbin, /boot or /mnt ro then I can
understand that, but / is just too general.

Btw: please do not toppost, i.e.: answer under the section(s) you
want to reply to, and delete the unrelated rest.

> BTW, I've looked at the file "/var/log/boot.msg". It said that the driver
> needed to change some files in "/etc/X11/" and in
> "/usr/src/linux/include/asm". So, I made a tarball of the folders
> "/etc/X11/"  and "/usr/src/linux/include/asm" and do the same thing to
> them like "/var" and "/tmp" (extracting them to "/dev/shm" and linked
> "/dev/shm/X11" & "/dev/shm/asm" to "/etc/X11" &
> "/usr/src/linux/include/asm"). It worked now. Well at least so far it
> worked.

But for other apps you'll need to do other hacks. Soon you'll be
busy with nothing but finding ways around a problem which might be
solved easier in another way.
What exactly is your problem that you want to mount / ro?

Theo
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