Re: mount: / mounted already or bad option

On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 05:26:02PM +0300, SMS WebMaster wrote:
>  Hi
> I have Gentoo linux in my PC
> I just installed the kernel 2.4.22 and compile it and install it (using 
> genkernel command)
> Right now if I reboot my PC with my new kernel I got :
> mount: / mounted already or bad option
> and the system stop and ask me to type the root password
> and when I login with the root and type
> mount -o remount,rw /
> 
> I got the same message
> mount: / mounted already or bad option
> 
> but if I write
> mount -o remount,rw /dev/hda4  /
> then the root filesystem if remounted as read/write

wouldn't your /etc/mtab be a link to /proc/self/mounts with /proc not mounted ?

Willy