Subject: Re: new stand/netboot too big
To: Matthias Drochner <drochner@zelux6.zel.kfa-juelich.de>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 03/20/1997 12:33:15
Matthias Drochner writes:
> Excerpts from netbsd: 20-Mar-97 Re: new stand/netboot too big Bill
> Sommerfeld@orchard. (671)
> 
> > I had trouble with installboot, at least as
> > it's used by the ssto makefiles..  it appears to want to write to the
> > raw device of a mounted filesystem, and when it opens up the raw
> > device for writing it gets EBUSY (because the corresponding block
> > device has a mounted filesystem on it).  I had to hack it to unmount
> > the filesystem at the right place, which leads me to wonder how this
> > ever worked for him..
> 
> Thats with securelevel >=1, right?
> Call it a known problem.

Ah! Now I understand.

However, it makes perfect sense -- with securelevel above one you
aren't supposed to do any such administrative stuff.

I'm not unhappy with the current installboot given this.

Perry