[LinuxBIOS] IDE become readonly, why?

Beneo beneo at comcast.net
Thu Apr 5 20:27:11 CEST 2007


Hi all, 

I was using LinuxBIOS to boot Linux from IDE from a Broadcom HT,1000 south bridge based  platform , I encounter an issue which is hard to understand. I hope somebody can give me some insight. 

During boot, Linux stoped at the point that it displayed a message:
"Configuring kernel parameters:  [  OK  ]"

then I pressed "CTRL-C",  Linux continue to boot, but display a message:
"Starting automount:Cannot create temp file /tmp/autofs.meQYNM, could not make temp file"

then Linux boot Skipped rest of initialization, like probe the network and etc. but Linux did give me a login prompt, I can login using root, but I cannot write any file at root directory, It appears to me Entire Linux file system becomes readonly. 

Phoenix BIOS came with that board doesn't have this issue, so I know it should be LinuxBIOS related. I just don't know why. 

Does anybody know anything about this issue? 


Thanks 

Beneo

---- dump from Linux boot. 

INIT: version 2.84 booting
                Welcome to Red Hat Linux
                Press 'I' to enter interactive startup.
Mounting proc filesystem:  [  OK  ]
Unmounting initrd:  [  OK  ]
Configuring kernel parameters:  [  OK  ]
INIT: Entering runlevel: 3
Entering non-interactive startup
Starting pcmcia:  [  OK  ]
Starting automount:Cannot create temp file /tmp/autofs.meQYNM
could not make temp file
INIT: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "2" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "3" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "4" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "5" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "6" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes

Red Hat Linux release 9 (Shrike)
Kernel 2.4.20-8smp on an i686

(none) login:
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