On Sep 8, 2006, at 2:07 PM, Bryan Vyhmeister wrote:

> On Sep 8, 2006, at 12:02 PM, Allen Briggs wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 11:57:33AM -0700, Bryan Vyhmeister wrote:
>>> Well, I attempted using single user mode which did not work. It  
>>> still
>>> mounts read-only and I cannot use mount -rw /. I get the following
>>> message:
>>>
>>> mount: /: unknown special file or file system
>>
>> Try
>> 	mount -u /dev/sd0a /
>>
>> The "special file or file system" in this case is your root  
>> partition,
>> or /dev/sd0a.  Where you want it mounted in /.  -u says to update the
>> mount.  I believe that the default is read/write, but if you need to,
>> add "-w".  NetBSD has no "-rw" option--"-r" means read-only.
>
> Thank you very much. That worked! I should have checked the mount  
> syntax. Some other OS has the -rw flag I think. That's the problem  
> with spending your time between Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD,  
> and Linux in its various forms. :-)
>
> My SE/30 is finally functioning properly except for the kernel  
> panic whenever I reboot. Any ideas on what could be causing that?

I guess I spoke too soon. I ran ftp and I immediately had a kernel  
panic. I'm rebooting and I'll try again and see if it will work this  
time...

I just tried running ftp again and it immediately causes a kernel  
panic. I get messages regarding an "address trap error."

Bryan