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:
A workaround -- Use the command, "mount -o rw,remount /" once the shell is running.
This actually appears to be a bug in mkinitrd. Let's let them take a peek at this.
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