Subject: Re: 1.3.3 installer problems
To: Andreas Gustafsson <gson@araneus.fi>
From: Jukka Marin <jmarin@pyy.jmp.fi>
List: port-i386
Date: 02/12/1999 18:05:33
On Fri, Feb 12, 1999 at 03:27:05PM +0200, Jukka Marin wrote:
> > Jukka Marin wrote:
> > > /dev/rwd0a:   132048 sectors in 131 cylinders of 16 tracks, 63 sectors
> > >     64.5 MB in 9 cyl groups (16 c/g, 7.88MB/g, 1792 i/g)
> > >     super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at:write error: 64
> > > wtfs: Read-only filesystem
> > 
> > It looks like you are trying to overwrite the disklabel.  This causes
> > a "Read-only filesystem" error because the wd driver will not let you
> > write the sector containing the disklabel unless you do a special
> > ioctl first.
> 
> That was it.  I specified the sizes in sectors and newfs went OK.

Well, install went ok, but now the stupid thing doesn't want to boot
off the IDE disk.  When kernel loading should start, it just resets.

Sigh..

  -jm