Re: 1.5.1 miniroot broken?

[David Brownlee <abs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Lars Hecking wrote:

> Gunther Nikl writes:
>
> >   If you mount / rw, delete the stampfile (its a dot file) and then start
> >   the script again it should work fine.
> >   Note: Its probably enough to mount / rw and start the script.
>
>  How? I tried mount -u {root_device|/kern/root_device} /, but all fails
>  because there is no fstab. /etc/fstab is linked to /tmp/fstab.shadow.
>  Which for obvious reasons cannot exist.
>
> David Brownlee writes:
> >     Is anyone interested in testing a simple patch for this?
> >     You'll need to be able to build your own miniroot...
>
>  Very interested. If I can build the miniroot under 1.5 somehow.

        You should be able to run a 'make' from /usr/src/distrib

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Index: distrib/amiga/miniroot/install.md
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RCS file: /cvsroot/basesrc/distrib/amiga/miniroot/install.md,v
retrieving revision 1.11.8.3
diff -u -B -r1.11.8.3 install.md
--- distrib/amiga/miniroot/install.md   2000/11/15 19:49:14     1.11.8.3
+++ distrib/amiga/miniroot/install.md   2001/07/23 16:50:53
@@ -65,11 +65,14 @@
 
 md_makerootwritable() {
        # Mount root rw for convenience of the tester ;-)
-       if [ ! -e /tmp/.root_writable ]; then
+       cp /dev/null /tmp/.root_writable_test >/dev/null 2>&1
+       if [ ! -e /tmp/.root_writable_test ]; then
                __mount_kernfs
                # XXX: Use /kern/rootdev instead?
                mount -u /kern/rootdev / > /dev/null 2>&1
-               cp /dev/null /tmp/.root_writable
+       else
+               # Remove file to avoid problems with restarting r/o
+               rm -f /tmp/.root_writable_test
        fi
 }