We've been trying to install the newest version of Ubuntu on an older HP DL320 G2 server, and for some reason it always puts the drives in readonly mode. We can't edit or create anything, as our main user account or sudo'ing to root.
Any ideas on how to troubleshoot this?
Best Answer
If you can't upgrade because it's read-only then start by looking at dmesg do see what that says. It'll probably be the system BIOS or the RAID controller BIOS thats marking it read only.
If it's installed, but you cannot write to the disk after booting, then check if the filesystems are mounted as readonly with the command "mount".
If it's readonly then you may need to run a fsck on the filesystem, or maybe just remount it rw.
Hope that helps.