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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: NetBSD 0.9 boot single-user with mount rw
Message-ID: <BRIAN.93Oct14005028@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers)
Date: 14 Oct 93 07:50:28 GMT
References: <tmcCEI6uw.9nJ@netcom.com>
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In-reply-to: tmc@netcom.com's message of Thu, 7 Oct 1993 01:30:30 GMT
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In article <tmcCEI6uw.9nJ@netcom.com> tmc@netcom.com (Thomas M. Crockett) writes:


[ stuff deleted ]
   that I forgot to undo the fix before exiting X.  And then soemthing had
   died because there was no terminal to return to...  OK, boot single
   user (-s) which then of course brings up the root partition in
   read-only mode! Wonderful, except that what I need to fix is /etc/ttys
[ stuff deleted ]

So try
    mount -u /

It'll re-mount root as writable.

Brian.
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Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>