Bug 120044

Summary:	kernel ignores rw boot parameter and mounts rootfs ro
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3	Reporter:	Victor Ashik <victor>
Component:	mkinitrd	Assignee:	Peter Jones <pjones>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	3.0	CC:	riel, staubach
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Description Victor Ashik 2004-04-05 14:41:48 UTC

Description of problem:


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Reboot RHEL3
2. Press a in the GRUB menu
3. Replace ro with rw and add init=/bin/sh
4. Press Enter
5. mount /proc
6. cat /proc/mounts
  
Actual results:
/ mounted ro

Expected results:
/ mounted rw

Additional info:

Comment 5 Peter Staubach 2005-06-24 17:40:49 UTC

A workaround --

Use the command, "mount -o rw,remount /" once the shell is running.

Comment 6 Peter Staubach 2005-06-24 17:42:16 UTC

This actually appears to be a bug in mkinitrd.  Let's let them take a peek
at this.

Comment 7 RHEL Program Management 2007-10-19 19:28:07 UTC

This bug is filed against RHEL 3, which is in maintenance phase.
During the maintenance phase, only security errata and select mission
critical bug fixes will be released for enterprise products. Since
this bug does not meet that criteria, it is now being closed.
 
For more information of the RHEL errata support policy, please visit:
http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/errata/
 
If you feel this bug is indeed mission critical, please contact your
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information on how this bug is affecting you.