"Read-only file system" error while writing

Thayne Harbaugh tharbaugh at lnxi.com
Wed May 21 10:18:40 EDT 2003


On Wed, 2003-05-21 at 05:33, Gordon J Milne wrote:

> The device (1f:03) is the root device and it has been remounted rw. I 
> verified this by checking /proc/mounts - everything was rw, as expected. My 
> system successfully boots and I can execute commands. It is just the 
> filesystem writes that are not working for me.

This is the symptom if you have the incorrect unlock addresses for an
LPC flash chip: everything is readable, but nothing can be erased or
written.

The ST M28W320CB is a CFI part and so I can't guarantee that it's the
same thing, but it may be a similar problem.


-- 
Thayne Harbaugh
Linux Networx
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