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Posted: **Sun Sep 22, 2019 1:58 am**

To make it boot and remain in R/W mode is kinda of a pain, but for starters remove ",ro" in the Options column in /etc/fstab for the filesystems in question.

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#File System            Mountpoint              Type    Options                Dump     Pass
/dev/mmcblk0p1          /boot                   vfat    defaults,ro               02
/dev/mmcblk0p2          /                       ext4    defaults,noatime,ro       01

You'll also need to edit /etc/rc.local and comment out line 68 "mount -o remount,ro /"

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sudo nano /etc/rc.local

There is also a cron job that is run every hour that runs to set it back to R/O mode too. That mount command is on line 33

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sudo nano /usr/local/sbin/pistar-hourly.cron

You are also going to run into it reverting to R/O mode after each of the following scripts are run, so you'll need to edit them and comment out the mount command in those too.

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/usr/local/sbin/pistar-ap.service
/usr/local/sbin/pistar-expand
/usr/local/sbin/pistar-mmdvmcal
/usr/local/sbin/pistar-update
/usr/local/sbin/pistar-upgrade

pistar-ap.service probably won't run automatically unless the system comes up and can't find a network. To make sure it doesn't run, I'd disable AP mode in the control panel.
pistar-expand should only get run on first boot, so I'd ignore it.
pi-star-mmdvmcal would only be run by you, but you might need to change the script if you plan on running it.

pi-star-update and upgrade get run automatically and manually, so lines 303 and 304 in pistar-update, and 877 and 878 in pistar-upgrade need to be commented out.

This lists filename:line number to help you out. (they are in /usr/local/sbin/) (pistar-upgrade lines 747 though 752 can be ignored)

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pistar-ap.service:112:          mount -o remount,ro /
pistar-ap.service:133:          mount -o remount,ro /
pistar-ap.service:172:          mount -o remount,ro /
pistar-expand:110:mount -o remount,ro /boot
pistar-expand:111:mount -o remount,ro /
pistar-hourly.cron:33:# mount -o remount,ro /
pistar-mmdvmcal:54:mount -o remount,ro /
pistar-update:303:      mount -o remount,ro /
pistar-update:304:      mount -o remount,ro /boot
pistar-upgrade:747:             echo 'ExecStartPost=/bin/mount -o remount,ro /' >> /etc/systemd/system/apt-daily.service
pistar-upgrade:748:             echo 'ExecStartPost=/bin/mount -o remount,ro /boot' >> /etc/systemd/system/apt-daily.service
pistar-upgrade:751:             echo 'ExecStartPost=/bin/mount -o remount,ro /' >> /etc/systemd/system/apt-daily-upgrade.service
pistar-upgrade:752:             echo 'ExecStartPost=/bin/mount -o remount,ro /boot' >> /etc/systemd/system/apt-daily-upgrade.service
pistar-upgrade:877:     mount -o remount,ro /
pistar-upgrade:878:        mount -o remount,ro /boot

change the following lines in /etc/systemd/system/apt-daily.service

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[Unit]
Description=Daily apt download activities
Documentation=man:apt(8)
ConditionACPower=true
After=network-online.target
Wants=network-online.target

[Service]
Type=oneshot
#ExecStartPre=/bin/mount -o remount,rw /
#ExecStartPre=/bin/mount -o remount,rw /boot
ExecStart=/usr/lib/apt/apt.systemd.daily update
#ExecStartPost=/bin/mount -o remount,ro /
#ExecStartPost=/bin/mount -o remount,ro /boot

and /etc/systemd/system/apt-daily-upgrade.service

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[Unit]
Description=Daily apt upgrade and clean activities
Documentation=man:apt(8)
ConditionACPower=true
After=apt-daily.service

[Service]
Type=oneshot
#ExecStartPre=/bin/mount -o remount,rw /
#ExecStartPre=/bin/mount -o remount,rw /boot
ExecStart=/usr/lib/apt/apt.systemd.daily install
KillMode=process
TimeoutStopSec=900
#ExecStartPost=/bin/mount -o remount,ro /
#ExecStartPost=/bin/mount -o remount,ro /boot

I'll bet there are other scripts hidden all over that run that will revert it to back to R/O mode, but hopefully that will work long enough for you to be able to test.

I'm not familiar with svxlink, so I'll start researching it.

Posted: **Sun Sep 22, 2019 3:06 am**

Wow, I now understand why I couldn't get it to come out of RO mode. I also found /boot/cmdline.txt also has it in there. I will tackle this tomorrow and see how it goes.

I am going to push up an image to my website soon that has my version of mmdvm (RC4 with trunk BUSTER OS) and also svxlink installed and configured for the board. I will share the path if you are interested.

Svxlink is an incredibly powerful analog repeater controller software package. It has been around for like 15 years, and has a large audience around the world. There is no support for digital integration, but the first board I mailed out is to one of the key developers to tinker with so who knows. I am planning just to run pi-star and svxlink in parallel, with analog set to be priority over the digital. I might make that programmable later, but for now it is done with analog signaling (Squelch drives the inhibit bin on the mmdvm).

I am hopeful that I will only need it to be RW for about the first minute or so, so some of the watchdog and misc scripts may be skipable.

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