You can remount the file system by doing: mount -o remount,rw / - Herman On Sun, 30 Jun 2002, John Sved wrote: ->Thanks Steve, -> ->I did as you suggested. -> ->fsck -N -V /dev/hda5 indicated the correct EXT2 filesystem -> ->fsck -V /dev/hda5 worked OK. No errors detected. -> ->running fsck again showed /dev/hda5 to be clean. -> ->However the -> ->ERROR ! cannot fsck because root is not read only -> ->message still appears during the boot -> ->A few lines later there is the message ->/dev/hda5 is rw ->Restore device permissions -> ->Do I simply, as root, use konquerer to set the permissions of ->/dev/hda5 to user R, group R where user is root and group is disk ? -> ->At present user is R and W and grout is R and W. -> ->-- John -> ->steve wrote: ->> ->> On Sunday 30 June 2002 05:09, John Sved wrote: ->> ->>>During the boot sequence I see the following message on screen. ->>> ->>>ERROR ! cannot fsck because root is not read only. ->>> ->>>This started afer using mkinit or mk_init following the removal of a NIC ->>>module. That was fixed but since then the ERROR message occurs. ->>> ->>>How should I restore the normal fsck after 20 boots. ->>> ->>>/dev/hda5 is the root ->>> ->>>What is the correct command to make root read only at boot time and ->>>restore the normal operation? ->>> ->>> ->>>-- John ->>> ->> ->> Boot up into single user by adding single to the boot line. I.e. 'linux ->> single'. Then you'll get to a root login prompt. Login and run your fsck on ->> /dev/hda5. Remember that your fsck should match the type of filesystem you ->> use. I don't do it often enough to remember if it does that automatically. ->> Though I think it would exit with a code if you use it on a wrong type. ->> ->> -> -> -> -> ->