I had the same issue with my install, what I did was rather simple. I
booted back into the install image, mounted / and chroot'd to it. A
few vi's later and everything was back to normal.

Then again, I have a very simple partition layout. / and /usr over
NFS. Getting FBSD to speak NFS was harder than anything!

On 9/7/06, Andreas Wolf <aw@seqlab.de> wrote:
> Hi,
> just joined the list and hope it is still active. I was amazed to see
> that NetBSD on 68k Macs is further supported. Thanks to everyone
> involved in this project.
> I tried a vanilla-install of 3.0.1 on my Quadra700 with 20M RAM and a 4
> Gig HD at SCSI 1, partitioned into sd1a (root), sd1b (swap), sd1g
> (/usr), sd1d (/var), sd1e (/tmp) and finally sd1f (/home). Rather than
> using the traditional method, I tried out the sysinstall thing, applied
> the bug fix of manually formatting and mounting the partitions, used
> ftp to download the packages, and was happy to see the progress bar
> flying by ;-)
> However, after rebooting I noticed some error messages stating that
> some apps could not write to /etc as it would be read-only. When I did
> a "mount" I saw that only /usr and /var were actually mounted and / was
> indeed readonly. So I looked at /etc/fstab and saw that the entry for
> sd1a was commented out, and the remainder of the partitions had a
> "noauto" flag. Is this a bug or a feature? I had a hard time to edit
> the fstab file, but I uncommented the sd1a line and removed all noauto
> flags. It seems to work now but I'm not sure if I did the right thing.
>
> Andreas
>
>