I'm pretty new here to. I can help with the single-user thing though. I
think, you can fix that by typing,

mount -w /

I believe this mounts the root disk writeable. You might have to do it for
other partitions also, like mount -w /usr perhaps.

        -- Levi Sluder

Sakagami Hitoshi wrote:

> Hi, I'm newcomer for this community.
>
> I'm going to install NetBSD into powerbook520c w/o FPU.
>
> First, I checked that my 68LC040 was not a buggy CPU, running FPU
> application with softFPU under Mac OS.
> Second, I made partions and installed NetBSD 1.4.2 without any
> difficulties.
>
> I kicked the booter, and everything seemed to be good until "root on
> sd0a dump on sd0b" message was displayed and process stoped.
> I happened to find that "command + power" key drop it to debbuger mode
> and scsi was doubtful.
> Thay say that if the CPU is '030, GENERICSBC kernel is fine.
> I have tried it hopelessly, but it worked !
> So I suggest that GENERICSBC kernel may be fine even '040 CPU, and
> FAQ should be revised.
>
> But I still have problems.
>
> 1) I can not create/modify files in single user mode.
>    (NetBSD says that file system is read-only.)
> 2) too many segment faults even with usually commands, like "ls", "vi",
>    which never seem to use FPU.
>
> These are wellknown ??
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