On Fri, 13 Feb 1998, Adrian Rollett wrote:

> On Fri, 13 Feb 1998, Dale Einarson wrote:
> 
> > hello folks,
> > 	Following the instructions prevoiusly on this list, I have for you my
> [X11 probs snipped]
> > 
> > **************
> > * kernel
> > **************
> > NetBSD 1.3 (GENERIC) #56: Wed Dec 31 13:40:30 PST 1997
> >     allen@wormey:/usr/src/sys/arch/mac68k/compile/GENERIC
> > 
> > 
> > Which I named netbsd13

This is another problem. The kernel should always be named /netbsd. You
certainly can have copies or hard links to other names, but /netbsd needs
to be an image of the running kernel.

> > /dev/sd0b /swap	swap
> > /dev/sd0a /.	ffs
> > 
> 
> I am assuming that these here are your /etc/fstab entrys, and if so, you
> have a few problems right there - first off, swap is *not* mounted as
> such, there is no path to the swap partition, and the entry for /dev/sd0a
> is kinda funny too - here is my fstab, it works fine, and i hope it will
> help oyu...
> 
> /dev/sd0a       /       ufs     rw 1 1
> /dev/sd0b       none    swap    sw 0 0
> /dev/sd0e       /usr/local      ufs     rw 1 2
> /dev/sd0g       /home   ufs     rw 1 2
> kern            /kern   kernfs  rw 0 0
> proc            /proc   procfs  rw 0 0

I agree the fstab's a bit off. But the problem you're running into is, as
Colin mentioned, you're booting single user. At that point, the only
mounted partition is the root partition, and it's mounted read-only.

It's mounted read-only so that you can fsck the root partition without
problems (one of the main reasons single-user mode exists).

Take care,

Bill