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From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi ASAMI)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: FreeBSD down - HELP
Date: 17 Aug 1994 11:50:28 GMT
Organization: CS Div. - EECS, The University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720
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In-reply-to: faerber@ICSI.Berkeley.EDU's message of 16 Aug 1994 10:20:56 PST

In article <32r028$9ra@agate.berkeley.edu>
        faerber@ICSI.Berkeley.EDU (Johannes Faerber) writes:

 * I just tried to boot from my new kernel - didn`t work. Keyboard 
 * is dead. I rebooted with -s and wanted to exchange the kernels
 * again, but ...  "Read-only file system".

Try

mount -u /

at your single-user shell.  That will make the kernel mounted
read/write.

Satoshi (is this in the faq yet?)