Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 28 Feb 2001 13:04:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 28 Feb 2001 13:04:37 -0500 Received: from mauve.csi.cam.ac.uk ([131.111.8.38]:19193 "EHLO mauve.csi.cam.ac.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 28 Feb 2001 13:04:25 -0500 Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 18:06:55 +0000 (GMT) From: "James A. Sutherland" To: "Mr. James W. Laferriere" cc: Per Erik Stendahl , "'Linux Kernel'" Subject: Re: Unmounting and ejecting the root fs on shutdown. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote: > > Hello James , Yup that works alright . But the difficulty > Per & I were talking about is after the system (such as > slackware's live-fs) is -shutdown- the CD drive bay is still > locked , One has to hard-reset (or even power off for some) > before the bay will open . I am well aware why the bay does > not open while the live-fs has it mounted . But am quite > baffled as to why the darn thing remains locked after system > shutdown . Again I am quite sure I know why that is happening > as well . The live-fs is hard read-only and the umount of the > live-fs can not complete , so the CD drive never receives an > unlock . Sound about right ? Twyl , JimL The point is, if you mount the CD as /usr, you should then be able to unmount it properly on shutdown... James. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/