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https://bbs.archlinux.org – falconindy, Sorry to have given the impression that this is an ARM oriented effort. My objective is to deploy read only rootfs on archlinux, regardless of architecture.kaos, that link is really the kind of info I'm missing. Can you offer something like sequential instructions for how to use the initcpio hook, and then what changes need to modify the boot sequence? Sorry to be dense, I'm still trying to understand how to put the whole thing together.It seems like the dropping of unionfs from the mainline kernel has left a lot of the existing instructions outdated. aufs3 seems to be wh (HowTos)

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I see this happen in Ubuntu 12.04. When I plug an SD card which contains boot and rootfs partitions, only the rootfs gets automounted but not the boot. The only difference between these two is that boot partition is FAT32 type while rootfs is ext4 type.

So I understand that Ubuntu does not automount FAT32. But why is this so?

I have this issue as well. I upgraded the first time in about 2 weeks. on boot, I get past grub and im dumped into a shell as rootfs. /boot is empty and /new_root is read only. Can anyone shed any light on it?My system is about 2 years old.

dwarfcadaver https://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=70563

2013-05-21T16:02:19Z

While booting android on board, i am partitioning the SD Card into two partition such as boot and rootfs.

Both are different filesystem.

My question is: Why boot partition need to be vfat, and rootfs need to be ext3 or ext4?

Please explain to me in detail.

Hi!

I request your suggestions on the following scenario.

In our eval board we have the 16MB NOR and 16MB SDRAM.

I'm writing software for an embedded linux system and I'm using an NFS share as root directory. The root filesystem resides in /srv/nfs/rootfs, and it is exported using the following /etc/exports:

/srv/nfs *(rw,no_root_squash,no_subtree_check,async,wdelay)

The content of /srv/nfs/rootfs need to be owned by root, otherwise the target system will have trouble mounting /dev.

I'm trying out Linux by installing openSUSE 12.2 x64 on VirtualBox; the host is 64 bit Windows 7 Ultimate. I gave the install 16GB of storage - I will only be messing around with it - I thought this should be plenty.

I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 on AWS/EC2 and having a large number of hosts going belly up.