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