Thank you for this advice!

Sorry for the long lines...

----- Original Message -----
From: "Wojciech Puchar" <wojtek@chylonia.3miasto.net>
To: "Daniel Gallant" <dgallant@startech.com>
Cc: "Home Address" <adgallant@sympatico.ca>; <port-i386@netbsd.org>
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 2:10 PM
Subject: Re: booting in single user mode and hd read only


> >
> > I'm fairly new to *nix, and very new to NetBSD. I've installed NetBSD
1.5.2 on my Toshiba T1950 (486SX-25, 12Mb ram, 202Mb hd) over FTP. The
installation went smoothly, except when I rebooted the first time. At this
point I was greeted with a message that the system could not boot in multi
user mode, only single user mode.
> please don't send mails with such long lines.
>
> >
> > After reading further (yes, I RTFM, hopefully I didn't miss the
solution), I realized I had forgotten to change the rc.conf file to
'rc_configured=YES' and 'wscons=YES'.
> > I thought it would be trivial to make the changes (silly Dan). When I
> >tried to "vi /etc/rc.conf", I discovered the hard drive was mounted in
> >read only mode. I cannot make any changes to any files. So, I'm stuck in
> >the old Catch 22; to boot properly, I have to change rc.conf, but to
> >change rc.conf, I have to boot properly.
> >
> > Here are the things I will try tonight, in this order:
> >
> >> At the command prompt, enter "mount -u /" to mount all file systems
> >(i.e. the hard drive in this case) as read/write. Then make the changes.
> >If this does not work....
>
> it will work if you have proper /etc/fstab .
> if you haven't use
>
> mount -w /dev/wd0a /
>
> and then edit /etc/fstab and /etc/rc.conf etc...
> then just press CTRL-D - don't reboot!