Install linux-headers on nexus 7 2013 running ubuntu touch - readonly

I have installed ubuntu touch on my nexus 7 2013 recently, and have faced problem installing driver for Moxa Uport usb adapter. Actually the driver needs to be compilled and this is why I need linux headers to be installed.
I have found, that:
apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r`
needs to write something to /lib/modules and this path belongs to /dev/loop1 which is mounted as readonly. I'm able to remount it to rw, but on single attempt to write there, it falls back to readonly.
nothing about loop1 or /lib/modules in /etc/fstab
command:
mount | grep loop1
output:
/dev/loop1 on /android/system type ext4 (ro,relatime,data=ordered)
/dev/loop1 on /etc/ubuntu-touch-session.d/android.conf type ext4 (ro,relatime,data=ordered)
/dev/loop1 on /lib/udev/rules.d/70-android.rules type ext4 (ro,relatime,data=ordered)
/dev/loop1 on /usr/share/powerd/device_configs/config-default.xml type ext4 (ro,relatime,data=ordered)
/dev/loop1 on /lib/modules type ext4 (ro,relatime,data=ordered)
/dev/loop1 on /var/lib/lxc/android/rootfs/system type ext4 (ro,relatime,data=ordered)
command:
blockdev --report |grep loop1
output:
ro 256 512 4096 0 126427136 /dev/loop1
then:
blockdev --setrw /dev/loop1
blockdev --report |grep loop1
output:
rw 256 512 4096 0 126427136 /dev/loop1
command:
mount -o remount,rw /dev/loop1
mount | grep loop1
output:
/dev/loop1 on /android/system type ext4 (ro,relatime,data=ordered)
/dev/loop1 on /etc/ubuntu-touch-session.d/android.conf type ext4 (ro,relatime,data=ordered)
/dev/loop1 on /lib/udev/rules.d/70-android.rules type ext4 (ro,relatime,data=ordered)
/dev/loop1 on /usr/share/powerd/device_configs/config-default.xml type ext4 (ro,relatime,data=ordered)
/dev/loop1 on /lib/modules type ext4 (ro,relatime,data=ordered)
/dev/loop1 on /var/lib/lxc/android/rootfs/system type ext4 (rw,relatime,data=ordered)
strange, only /var/lib/lxc/android/rootfs/system was set to rw
so:
mount -o remount,rw /lib/modules
mount | grep loop1
output:
/dev/loop1 on /android/system type ext4 (ro,relatime,data=ordered)
/dev/loop1 on /etc/ubuntu-touch-session.d/android.conf type ext4 (ro,relatime,data=ordered)
/dev/loop1 on /lib/udev/rules.d/70-android.rules type ext4 (ro,relatime,data=ordered)
/dev/loop1 on /usr/share/powerd/device_configs/config-default.xml type ext4 (ro,relatime,data=ordered)
/dev/loop1 on /lib/modules type ext4 (rw,relatime,data=ordered)
/dev/loop1 on /var/lib/lxc/android/rootfs/system type ext4 (rw,relatime,data=ordered)
but:
mkdir /lib/modules/rrr
output:
mkdir: cannot create directory Б─≤/lib/modules/rrrБ─≥: Read-only file system
dmesg:
[ 8280.681213] EXT4-fs (loop1): previous I/O error to superblock detected
[ 8280.681579] Buffer I/O error on device loop1, logical block 0
[ 8280.682006] lost page write due to I/O error on loop1
[ 8280.682037] EXT4-fs error (device loop1): ext4_journal_start_sb:328: Detected aborted journal
[ 8280.682891] EXT4-fs (loop1): Remounting filesystem read-only
[ 8280.683135] EXT4-fs (loop1): previous I/O error to superblock detected
[ 8280.683593] Buffer I/O error on device loop1, logical block 0
I think the abowe is the reason of:
apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r`
fails with:
Unpacking linux-headers-3.4.0-5-flo (3.4.0-5.19~15.04.1) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-headers-3.4.0-5-flo_3.4.0-5.19~15.04.1_armhf.deb (--unpack):
error creating symbolic link `./lib/modules/3.4.0-5-flo/build': Read-only file system
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/linux-headers-3.4.0-5-flo_3.4.0-5.19~15.04.1_armhf.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
So, I got stuck on this, could please anybody help me?
Regards, Victor

Well, being not very experienced in ubuntu touch, android, linux, armhf stuff, I wasn't able to do it right and straightforward way.
Perhaps hacking boot.img could help but I'm not ready for this.
The only workaround I was able to imagine is mounting /lib/modules/3.4.0-5-flo to different new loop device. It works though.
cd /userdata
dd bs=1M count=100 if=/dev/zero of=build.img
losetup /dev/loop2 build.img
mkfs -t ext3 -m 1 -v /dev/loop2
mkdir /eee
mount -t ext3 /dev/loop2 /eee
cp -r /lib/modules/3.4.0-5-flo/. /eee
umount /eee
mount /dev/loop2 /lib/modules/3.4.0-5-flo
rmdir /eee
From this point I got able to install linux headers and compile Moxa's drivers.
I have discovered that drivers makefile aslo writes to /lib/modules/3.4.0-5-flo by the way.
So, to make mount permanent, and failed to change /etc/fstab I had to add to rc.local:
losetup /dev/loop2 /userdata/build.img
mount /dev/loop2 /lib/modules/3.4.0-5-flo
modprobe mxu11x0
I know it's rather wierd solution, but worked for me :)

on ubuntu touch the rootfs is read only so you would have to remount that as read write in general to be able to use apt on it.

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