On Oct 11, 11:02pm, Nick Moffitt wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 13, 1998 at 12:02:41PM -0600, Michael L. Hitch wrote:
> > 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

  -u is "update";  Just "-u" will update a read-only mount to write, and
"-ur" (or -u -r) will update a writeable filesystem to read-only.

> something?  Why did the mount point go before the special file?)

  Because I was probably tired and didn't check what I wrote :-)  That should
be:
	mount -u /mnt/rootdev /

  [I think someone may have corrected that.]

Michael

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Michael L. Hitch			mhitch@montana.edu
Computer Consultant
Information Technology Center
Montana State University	Bozeman, MT	USA