Subject: Re: Booting an iMac after installing 1.6Z
To: NetBSD (MacPPC) <port-macppc@netbsd.org>
From: Ryan La Riviere <larz@cbis.ece.drexel.edu>
List: port-macppc
Date: 10/07/2003 19:28:50
On 10/7/03 3:35 PM, "Alex Zepeda" <zipzippy@sonic.net> wrote:
>> the CD. Well, I couldn't have that happen so I stopped it. When I got to
>> the prompt, I found that just about everything had been moved to /etc.old.
>> Fine. I can deal with that...except that / is mounted as read-only and
>> making it read/write requires /etc/fstab to be in /etc. This is going to be
>> fun.
>>
>> So I guess, the lesson learned...don't interrupt the upgrade process.
>>
>> Back to messing it up (and trying other alternatives for upgrading to 1.6Z).
>
> Mount your root partition rw in an empty directory. Move etc.old to etc.
> Unmount and reboot.
I just ended up booting from CD, and doing what you suggested. I figured it
out 5 seconds after I sent the e-mail.
Thanks.
-Ryan
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