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On Wed, Dec 22, 1999 at 04:23:24PM +0000, uhah208@ma.rhbnc.ac.uk wrote:
> 
> Files came from 
> 
> sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk:/public/unix/NetBSD/arch/sparc/snapshot/19991024
> 
> This machine has 2 disks, using Solaris on  sd0  I formatted sd1 with
> 3 partitions:
> 
> a: 40   cyl  intended for  /
> b: 130  cyl  for swap
> c: whole disk
> g: 2500 cyl  for  /usr
> 
> Copied miniroot (  ./installation/miniroot/miniroot-14L.fs.gz  )
> to a local server, un-GNU-zip, copied it by  dd onto  /dev/rsd1b
> 
> Reboot from  /dev/rsd1b  proceeded with install, no visible errors.
> Copied all the sets from  ./binary/sets  to a local server, miniroot
> installed them by  ftp ,  again no visible errors after I learnt 
> from my mistakes.  
> 
> Detached  sd0  try to reboot from  sd1  using
> 
> boot disk1 netbsd -s
> 
> floods of messages, ending with  
> 
> root on sd0a dumps on sd0b 
> 
> and a shell prompt.  My problem is that the root drive  /  is mounted
> read-only & I cannot reconfigure anything.  
> 
> mount              says
> 
> root_device on / type ffs (local, read-only)
> 
> mount -u           says
> 
> mount_ffs: /dev/sd1a: on / :  specified device does not match mounted
> device
> 
> mount -o remount   says
> 
> mount_ffs: -o remount: option not supported
> 
> I tried  boot disk1 netbsd -as
> 
> but dont know how to answer its questions.  At any rate when it asks
> for a root device it wont accept  sd1a ,  it insists on le0 or fd0 or
> sd0[a-h]

Sounds like kernel and OpenPROM don't agree on disks numbering.
To remount / read/write you can try:
mount -u -o rw /dev/sd0a /
and then:
mount /dev/sd0g /usr

From here you should be able to edit /etc/fstab and change sd1 to sd0

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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