On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 03:23:29PM +0100, Arthur Chance wrote:
> If you're in single user mode "mount -uw /" will make / (and thus
> /etc/fstab) writable, although your choice of editors is restricted to
> /bin/ed and /rescue/{ex,vi}.Of course I tried that, and it did _not_ work! I'm not sure why, but it was when running a 8.0-RELEASE userland on a 8.1-RELEASE kernel. (I was trying to run 'make installworld' after booting in single user mode during the upgrade process). After booting with the old 8.0 kernel it did work! > Alternatively, before switching to the ahci driver, label all your > partitions and mount them using their labels rather than device names. This is probably a better idea. But people should note the difference between using 'tunefs -L' and 'glabel label'! The latter uses the last section of the provider to store metadata, so in that case one should _only_ create a filesystem on the labeled device! > That way the change in device names won't matter. Just be careful of the > gotcha with labelling the root partition. What do you mean? Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725)
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