Re: [MiNT] ext2 as root filesystem

[Martin-Eric Racine <q-funk@pp.fishpool.fi>]

> > Now that I have successfully transformed my root filesystem into 
> > an Extended-2 filesystem, I run into one problem:  e2fsck cannot
> > check the partition, because it is locked while I am using it.
> 
> > Doesn't Linux have a way to access its root partition for e2fsck
> > to check it, at bootup, and then make it locked again?
> 
> them. The root filesystem however (which must be mounted because it
> contains the fsck binary) is mounted readonly, then checked, and then
> mounted read/write.

So, why cannot this method work on MiNT too?
Sounds like an essential upgrade to me.

Anyhow, it still doesn't resolve a strange bug I have been having,
since a few days:

'grep' in rc.boot doesn't find /etc/fstab when it is started by 
INIT, but if I run 'sh /rc.boot' from a login shell, it works.

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