Re: Unmounting and ejecting the root fs on shutdown.

[Mr. James W. Laferriere]

	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

On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, James A. Sutherland wrote:

> On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote:
>
> >
> > 	Hello Per ,  Has anyone gotten back to you on this subject ?
> > 	I as well am very interested in any information about releiving
> > 	this difficulty .  Tia ,  JimL
>
> Such a CD would be very nice; one or two people do have this already,
> though. Have you tried using a ramdisk for root, and mounting the CD as
> /usr?
>
>
> James.
>

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