Subject: Re: NetBSD won't boot
To: Yasir Malik <ymalik@heineken.cs.stevens-tech.edu>
From: David Maxwell <david@crlf.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 10/26/2003 10:44:24
> Hello,
> My file system is read only, so I looked into the archives, and it said to
> do "mount -u -o rw /" fix the read only problem.  I do that but I get this
> message:
> mount: Cannot open '/etc/fstab': No such file or directory
> mount_ffs: root_device on /: No such file or directory.

Use mount -u -o rw /dev/wdXX /

Where XX is the partition for '/'. In the former command line, mount
would insert that for you, by looking it up in fstab.

> When I do "ls -l fstab", I get the following:
> lrwxrwxr-x 1 root wheel 17 Ocs 25 20:15 fstab -> etc.current/fstab

That's from the ln you mentioned in your first message. Instead of doing
ln to copy configs, use the newbtconf utility to create a new config by
copying an old one.

								David