Re: [PLUG] NetBSD

[Tobias DiPasquale <toby@cbcg.net>]

On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 22:06, Bradley Molnar wrote:
> hello all-
> 
> I just installed netbsd on a sparc machine and for some reason, the main
> drive is mounted in read only mode.  The fstab is set up to mount it as
> read/write and the online docs don't mention this anywhere.
> 
> The machine didn't say anything about there being a problem booting, and,
> this is the first boot after install.
> 
> Any ideas?
>
Solaris does the same thing. I believe its a PROM/bootloader thing. It mounts the / fs ro, and then remounts it rw. I believe that you have to emulate that behavior to get your disk rw. Here's the /etc/mnttab from my Blade 100:

# cat mnttab
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0       /       ufs     rw,intr,largefiles, 1037569789
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s6       /usr    ufs     rw,intr,largefiles, 1037569789
/proc   /proc   proc    dev=3900000     1037569785
fd      /dev/fd fd      rw,suid,dev=3a00000     1037569790
mnttab  /etc/mnttab     mntfs   dev=3ac0000     1037569791
swap    /var/run        tmpfs   dev=1   1037569791
swap    /tmp    tmpfs   dev=2   1037569792
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s7       /export/home    ufs     rw,intr,largefiles, 1037569792
# 

You will most likely have to boot from a CD and edit /etc/mnttab to look somewhat like the following. I made the email HTML so you could see the whole line without it breaking. HTH.

P.S. Are you any relation to Ingo?

Tobias DiPasquale |  UNIX Software Engineer |  http://cbcg.net/

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