Subject: Re: Read-only filesystem while running miniboot
To: None <raub@kushana.aero.ufl.edu>
From: Gordon W. Ross <gwr@mc.com>
List: port-sun3
Date: 01/08/1996 11:21:16
> From: raub@kushana.aero.ufl.edu (Mauricio Tavares)
> Date: Sun, 7 Jan 1996 16:28:24 -0500 (EST)
> 
> 	After I ran edlabel and copied the miniroot by saying
> 
> ssh: dd if=/mnt/miniroot of=dev/rsd0b bs=32k (the online instructions say to 
> use bs=32k whereas the installation manual says bs=8k),
> 
> I rebooted the 3/50 using the recently created miniroot:
> 
> >b sd(0,0,1) -s
> 
> Now, when I try to run the install program, or write to the miniroot disk 
> for that matter, I get a message saying it is a read-only filesystem.  
> What may be wrong and how can I correct that?  BTW, /etc/fstab found in 
> the miniroot looks like this:
> 
> /dev/sd0b / ufs rw 1 1
> 
> which seems to me to say the partition /dev/sd0b can be written to.  Am I 
> missing something here?

The install program should have run /.remount which should have
determined the root device and remounted it read/write.

Did you see any messages about remounting the root?

You can work around this problem by doing:
	$ /sbin/mount -u /dev/sd0b /
before you run the install program.

Gordon