On Mon, 15 Jul 1996, Josh Hope wrote:

> Here is my /etc/fstab file:
>
> /dev/sd1a   /   ufs rw 1 1
> /dev/sd1b   none   swap   sw 0 0
> kern      /kern   kernfs  rw 0 0
> proc      /proc   procfs  rw 0 0

The fstab doesn't effect single-user boots (except maybe identifying the
locations of the root & swap partitions, if even that).  In sinle-user
mode, only the root partition (mounted on / ) is mounted, and in read-only
mode.  That's to allow safe consistency checks (fsck).  In order to mount
everything read-write, you'd use

mount -a

but since you only have your single root&usr partition, just doing the -u
bit (mount -u / ) works.

Hope that clears up the confusion.  BTW, are you using the sbc kernel, and
if so, how well are things working with the EZ?  I'm very interested in
that myself, if only to have a backup root&usr on a cartridge.

Later,

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