Bradley Molnar on Mon, 25 Nov 2002 22:38:05 -0500


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RE: [PLUG] NetBSD


Ah, ok, thanks.  Funny thing, Debian on these machines had no trouble, it mounted fine in rw mode right after boot.  I'll try this tommorrow as I have other stuff to work on tonight (papers, ug) or after break.

As for the Ingo thing -- maybe.  The problem is that the last name of Molnar is not very popular in this country, in central Europe (Hungry, frmr Czechoslovakia, etc) the name is _very_ popular.  The translation is roughly Miller and is as popular as Smith in England.  So, maybe (that would be quite cool), but, probably not :).

-b


-----Original Message-----
From: plug-admin@lists.phillylinux.org [mailto:plug-admin@lists.phillylinux.org]On Behalf Of Tobias DiPasquale
Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 10:25 PM
To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
Subject: Re: [PLUG] NetBSD


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,onerror=panic,suid,dev=2200000       1037569789 
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s6       /usr    ufs     rw,intr,largefiles,onerror=panic,suid,dev=2200006       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,onerror=panic,suid,dev=2200007       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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