> The problem seems to be that debian insists on writing a file,
> /etc/network/ifstate, which is critical in bringing up networking.
> I've tried creating it and then mounting ro, but somewhere in the boot
> process / is mounted rw, the file is deleted, and then / is remounted
> ro, and networking fails as the scripts can't create that file.
>
> I think this should be considered a bug in debian startup; scripts
> should not use /etc/* to store volatile information; that's what /var
> is for....
>
An alternate solution might be if you can create your rootfs with /etc
and /tmp being a symbolic link to a rw partition (say /var)
-siddharth
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