In article <20050407064653.GH914@snowdrop.l8s.co.uk>, David Laight wrote:
>> One thing that I thought was strange:  on the second installation (to
>> wd0e), sysinst wrote the following fstab:
>> 
>> /dev/wd0a / ffs rw,noauto 1 1
>> /dev/wd0b none swap sw 0 0
>> /dev/wd0e / ffs rw 1 1
>> /dev/wd0f none swap sw 0 0
>> kernfs /kern kernfs rw
>> procfs /proc procfs rw,noauto
>> 
>> Is this the intended behavior?
> 
> It wasn't completely unintended.....
> However the code that remounts root rw does get slightly confused with
> the 'noauto' entry for "/" - I suspect it ought to be taught to look at
> the flags and ignore lines with noauto.

I filed a PR for this:

  http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=29916

Though maybe it isn't anyone's highest priority.

  Alan