Today was a fun day.  I rebooted one of my IBM Blade servers only to find out that it would only come back online in maintenance mode.  I had added a fstab entry for a USB drive that I was adding to the machine.  I hadn’t taken the time yet to plug the drive in.  So when I rebooted the machine walla… maintenance mode… The server thought the drive was corrupt or bad.  Then I realized the machine booted into READ ONLY while in maintenance mode.  So I hunted the solution and thought I would share it.  The trick is to remount the drive as READ WRITEABLE.   Its an easy solution but may throw you for a loop in a tight spot.  Here ya go….

# mount -n -o remount,rw /

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