On Sun, Sep 13, 1998 at 12:02:41PM -0600, Michael L. Hitch wrote:
> On Sep 13, 10:50am, Bill Studenmund wrote:
> > > Secondly I've run into another slight problem. I've dd'ed the
> > > diskimage to a scsi-disk and booted it. It works just fine, and
> > > I have a second disk installed and ready to be set up with
> > > sysinst. The problem is, however, that the disk that received
> > > the diskimage is mounted read-only, and the sysint script
> > > requires the disk to be rw. Now, that should simply be a matter
> > > of remounting it, but I don't seem to be able to do just that.
> > > The disk I have the fs on is rz5 and there is no /dev/rz5a file
> > > in my /dev directory, or any /dev/rz5* files for that matter. 
> 
> An alternative might be to mount the kernfs filesystem, which should
> contain a "rootdev" entry, which can be used to mount the root
> partition - something like this:
> 
> 	mount -t kernfs none /mnt
> 	mount -u / /mnt/rootdev
> 	umount /mnt

	I find that I have all my drives ready to be mounted, but the
root filesystem for the minidisk is mounted readonly.  I tried the
instructions listed here, but the system hung upon trying the mount -u
(I'm not too familiar with BSD semantics--is u Unconditional or
something?  Why did the mount point go before the special file?)

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