Re: USB stick error message

[mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)]

poobah%ruptured-duck.com@localhost (Bob Bernstein) writes:

># installboot -v -o timeout=1 /dev/rsd1a /usr/mdec/bootxx_ffsv1
>File system:         /dev/rsd1a
>Primary bootstrap:   /usr/mdec/bootxx_ffsv1
>Boot options:        timeout 1, flags 0, speed 9600, ioaddr 0, 
>console pc
>installboot: Writing `/dev/rsd1a': Read-only file system
>installboot: Set bootstrap operation failed


Either sd1a is really read-only, or you start the partition at
beginning of the disk so that it covers the label sector. Writing
to the latter also yields the 'Read-only file system' response.