Follow the Slackware init with respect to readonly root on boot

The live init script creates a /etc/fastboot file to prevent any
file system check on boot. This is cleaner than hacking rc.S and failing.

2 files changed, 5 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/liveinit.tpl b/liveinit.tpl
index b3b192e..c47c107 100755
--- a/liveinit.tpl
+++ b/liveinit.tpl
@@ -1326,6 +1326,9 @@ EOT
   /sbin/udevadm settle --timeout=10
   echo 0x0100 > /proc/sys/kernel/real-root-dev
 
+  # Re-mount the overlay read-only: 
+  mount -t overlay -o remount,ro,workdir=${OVLWORK},upperdir=${UPPERDIR},lowerdir=${RODIRS} overlay /mnt/overlay
+
   if [ ! -r /mnt/overlay/${INIT} ]; then
     echo "ERROR:  No ${INIT} found on rootdev (or not mounted).  Trouble ahead."
     echo "        You can try to fix it. Type 'exit' when things are done." 
@@ -1345,10 +1348,8 @@ unset ERR
 umount /proc
 umount /sys
 umount /run 2>/dev/null
-# We disable the filesystem checking code in /etc/rc.d/rc.S,
-# so we need to keep the fs writable here.
-#mount -o ro,remount /mnt/overlay 2>/dev/null
-echo "${MARKER}:  Slackware Live system is ready."
 
+echo "${MARKER}:  Slackware Live system is ready."
 echo "${MARKER}:  exiting"
+
 exec switch_root /mnt/overlay $INIT $RUNLEVEL
diff --git a/make_slackware_live.sh b/make_slackware_live.sh
index 85c1dab..502bd80 100755
--- a/make_slackware_live.sh
+++ b/make_slackware_live.sh
@@ -2159,9 +2159,6 @@ fi
 # Skip all filesystem checks at boot:
 touch ${LIVE_ROOTDIR}/etc/fastboot
 
-# Disable the root filesystem check altogether:
-sed -i -e '/^if \[ ! \$READWRITE = yes/,/^fi # Done checking root filesystem/s/^/#/' ${LIVE_ROOTDIR}/etc/rc.d/rc.S
-
 # We will not write to the hardware clock:
 sed -i -e '/systohc/s/^/# /' ${LIVE_ROOTDIR}/etc/rc.d/rc.6