fix(build): the root really is read-only, and two comments that overclaimed

Three places where build/ said something the tree does not do.

- fstab mounted `/` as `rw`. A box is started with `ro` on the kernel
  command line and `is_read_only: true` on the root device (every config in
  nesbox's tree agrees: examples/vm.json, test.json, run.local.json), so the
  virtio-blk device rejects writes whatever fstab asks for. `rw` here only
  made OpenRC's `root` service attempt a remount that has to fail. The
  Dockerfile already depended on the truth — it pre-creates /nestri/* at
  build time precisely because a runtime mkdir gets EROFS — so this makes
  fstab agree with the comment that was already right.

- build/README.md said nesbox's jail image "extracts Mesa and virglrenderer"
  from this base. It extracts only Mesa. virglrenderer is the host half of
  the native-context protocol and nesbox builds its own, patched, from
  nesbox/patches/; nothing in this image carries it at all.

- conf.d/nestri-user-env called the zink driver-forcing block "load-bearing"
  directly above three exports that are commented out, here and in the
  profile.d copy. Whether they should come back is a separate question; a
  comment insisting disabled lines are load-bearing tells the next reader
  the opposite of what the file does. The reasoning is kept, because it is
  still the reason to re-enable them, along with why both copies have to
  move together.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Wanjohi
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commit a76ca9ae81
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@@ -55,12 +55,15 @@ Three things worth knowing about how this is put together:
source, not a dependency, not a directory that 'looked convenient'."* Both
are closed. `runtime_prod` from this Dockerfile — tagged
`ghcr.io/nestrilabs/nestri/base:latest` — is a complete, bootable, Steam-less guest image,
and also the shared foundation other builds start from: nesbox's jailer
image (see `nesbox/build/`) extracts Mesa and virglrenderer from it so the
guest and host sides of the virtio-gpu native-context protocol never drift
apart. Whatever layers Proton and the Steam client on top of it is a closed
build outside this repo, by design — not something this repo names, links
to, or depends on.
and also the shared foundation other builds start from: nesbox's jail image
(see `nesbox/build/`) extracts **Mesa** from it so the guest and host sides of
the virtio-gpu native-context protocol never drift apart. Only Mesa —
`virglrenderer` is the host half of that protocol and nesbox builds its own,
patched, from `nesbox/patches/`; nothing in this image carries it.
Whatever layers Proton and the Steam client on top of it is a closed build
outside this repo, by design — not something this repo names, links to, or
depends on.
## The nesinit gap

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@@ -11,12 +11,16 @@ XDG_SESSION_TYPE="wayland"
XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP="nestri"
DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS="unix:path=/run/user/1000/bus"
# Driver forcing, mirrored from /etc/profile.d/nestri-env.sh. That file only
# runs for login shells, and nothing here is a login shell — every service
# below runs from OpenRC. Capture happens through a Vulkan layer, so a
# process that reached the GPU via native OpenGL would render fine and
# capture nothing; zink is what makes such a process capturable at all.
# These are load-bearing. Keep them in step with the profile.d copy.
# Driver forcing — currently off, in both copies. Kept, commented, because
# the reasoning still applies if it is ever needed again: capture happens
# through a Vulkan layer, so a process reaching the GPU via native OpenGL
# would render fine and capture nothing, and zink is what makes such a
# process capturable at all. Nothing has needed it so far.
#
# /etc/profile.d/nestri-env.sh carries the same block, also commented, and
# only runs for login shells — nothing here is one, every service below runs
# from OpenRC. If these are ever re-enabled, re-enable both: one copy on and
# one off means services and shells reach the GPU by different paths.
#__GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME="mesa"
#MESA_LOADER_DRIVER_OVERRIDE="zink"
#GALLIUM_DRIVER="zink"

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@@ -1,4 +1,10 @@
/dev/vda / ext4 rw,relatime 0 1
# `ro`, matching how a box is actually started: nesbox passes `ro` on the
# kernel command line and marks the root device `is_read_only: true` (see
# nesbox's examples/vm.json), so the virtio-blk device refuses writes at the
# device level. Saying `rw` here does not make it writable — it only asks
# OpenRC's `root` service to attempt a remount that the device must reject.
# Everything a running box writes to is a tmpfs or a share below.
/dev/vda / ext4 ro,relatime 0 1
devtmpfs /dev devtmpfs rw,nosuid 0 0
proc /proc proc rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec 0 0