On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 04:48:23 +0200
Jan Danielsson <jan.m.danielsson@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> >>    I boot off a USB memory key, then use the sysctl init.root knob
> >> to chroot from a memory disk to a cgd0a on wd0a. I followed
> >> Lubomirs advise. See
> >> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-users/2007/07/01/0002.html.
> >>
> > Grasping at more straws -- is the USB key formatted as FAT or FFS?
> 
>    ffs. I was worried about FAT potentially causing permission
> problem, ironically. :)

Hmm.  I was hoping you'd say FAT, because then I could say "I wonder if
that's causing a permission problem"....

Now I'm wondering if there's some problem with either (a) a cgd device
and permissions, or (b) mounting something over /.


		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb