Re: Unable to permanently write to rootfs

--- Mikko Heiskanen <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm all out of ideas about why my nbsd-301-i386 running on a
> qcow-image in qemu 0.9.0 keeps telling me upon boot that the
> root filesystem isn't marked as clean.
> I drop to singleuser and mount ro, fsck, no errors, mount rw,
> edit something in /etc, boot, and swoosh!
> It's as if I've never edited anything in there.
> I'd appreciate any ideas.
> 

Hi,

I think QEMU has options to make sure disk images are read-only so that
simulation does not modify them regardless (and something like saving
the information separately in another file, like a diff). This may be
causing what you are seeing.

Hope this helps.


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