[BusyBox] Write protected disk

[Tony Heller]

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to use busybox to minimize the amount of activity in the init 
routine, and have been simulating that configuration under the bochs 
simulator for some time now.  Recently I tried putting the same 
configuration on a real Redhat 7.2 system, and it booted to the bash 
prompt- but unfortunately the system then thought that the disk (hda) 
was write protected, making the system useless.

The steps I took were:
copied busybox to /bin
linked /sbin/init to busybox
installed the specified /etc/inittab and /etc/init.d/rcS

Any ideas why the disk comes up write protected?  It would be  great 
help to me if I could use the same boot on hardware and simulation.

TIA,
Tony