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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!chi-news.cic.net!feed1.news.erols.com!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news-pull.sprintlink.net!news-in-east.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!Sprint!206.250.118.17!nntp.earthlink.net!trickys From: trickys@earthlink.net (Stefan Sinclair) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.openbsd.misc Subject: Re: OpenBSD 2.1 mac68k - Read Only File System? Date: 2 Jun 1997 03:48:25 GMT Organization: EarthLink Network, Inc. Lines: 29 Message-ID: <slrn5p4gat.1qt.trickys@Durandal.none> References: <slrn5p22oi.n9.trickys@Durandal.none> Reply-To: trickys@doomhammer.com NNTP-Posting-Host: ip244.lincoln.ne.pub-ip.psi.net X-Newsreader: slrn (0.9.2.1 BETA UNIX) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.openbsd.misc:121 I was finally able to fix the read-only filesystem problem. After reformatting my drive and doing a clean install, the problem persisted. fsck showed that something was getting messed up in the partition map (I think this might have been the mkfs_1.4 utility causing the trouble?), and was able to force the disk to mount as read-write using mount -uw /dev/sd1a / . Upon rebooting, the problem remained, but I noticed a message at boot that said there was some problem with the filesystem ... "ffs != ufs". After again forcing the disk to mount as r+w, I changed /etc/fstab 's entry for the root partition (/dev/sd1a on my system) from ufs to ffs, and rebooted. Now everything seems okeedokee :-) ! As a reward for reading through my long story, visit the site below and have a good laugh... http://www.macaddict.com/poll.html -Stefan On 1 Jun 1997 05:44:29 GMT, Stefan Sinclair <trickys@earthlink.net> wrote: >OK, I finally got a *BSD system to work on my old Mac LCII - OpenBSD 2.1. >It boots fine & everything, but I can't do anything because I get an error >message saying: "Filesystem is read-only." An ls -al showed that I *should* >have write-access to the expected places. chmod +w was useless. What's the >deal here? I've installed OpenBSD on an external 330MB HD, with 100MB left >to a Mac HFS partition. I'm booting using the bsd-generic kernel, located on >the Mac partition. I am not booting in single user mode, either. >Any help on this subject would be much appreciated! >Thank you, > >-Stefan