From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 26 22:16:10 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA28948 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 26 Jun 1996 22:16:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (palmer.demon.co.uk [158.152.50.150]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA28881 for ; Wed, 26 Jun 1996 22:15:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by palmer.demon.co.uk (sendmail/PALMER-2) with ESMTP id GAA02498; Thu, 27 Jun 1996 06:13:16 +0100 (BST) To: One Kosher Pickle cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: ro mount of root_device in single-user In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 27 Jun 1996 00:02:10 CDT." <199606270502.AAA00952@terra.igcom.net> Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1996 06:13:15 +0100 Message-ID: <2496.835852395@palmer.demon.co.uk> Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk One Kosher Pickle wrote in message ID <199606270502.AAA00952@terra.igcom.net>: > After being informed by the folks in #freebsd that the root_device, when > booted in single-user mode, is supposed to be read-write, I have a > question.. For some reason, when booting the kernel with the -s option > (therefore booting single-user) my root_device is mounted as read-only. I > can't figure out why...any idea what's wrong? The people on #freebsd were wrong! If you boot single user, root *IS* mounted read-only ... you have to do `mount -u /' to mount it r/w ... Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info