Hiya Peter,

On Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 11:54:12PM +0100, Peter Bell wrote:
> It's been a while since I last played with my NetBSD box (using one of
> the 'daily' releases of 1.6), so I thought that I would do a fresh
> install from scratch.
> 
> However, having fetched all the sets via ftp and unpacked them (all
> under the control of sysinst), I then alter fastboot to load the
> kernel from the NetBSD disk (I have wd1, on the RPC internal
> interface, dedicated to BSD).  Fine - it boots up, but with the
> partition mounted r/o, and whatever I do, I can't get it into a
> writable state.

Sounds fine... i guess you had to edit the `fastboot' file to configure to 
use wd1?

> # mount
> root_device on / type ffs (read-only, local)
> # mount -u -w /
> mount_ffs: root_device on /: No such file or directory

Hmm... if rc.conf is not configured it will stop at this place yes. I think 
your /etc/fstab needs some attention. I think something is wrong in there 
that gives rise to both problems.

If you checked your /etc/fstab could you please mail the list your `dmesg' 
output and your /etc/rc.conf ? that would help a lot.

Cheers,
Reinoud