poo...@ruptured-duck.com (Bob Bernstein) writes: ># installboot -v -o timeout=1 /dev/rsd1a /usr/mdec/bootxx_ffsv1 >File system: /dev/rsd1a >Primary bootstrap: /usr/mdec/bootxx_ffsv1 >Boot options: timeout 1, flags 0, speed 9600, ioaddr 0, >console pc >installboot: Writing `/dev/rsd1a': Read-only file system >installboot: Set bootstrap operation failed
Either sd1a is really read-only, or you start the partition at beginning of the disk so that it covers the label sector. Writing to the latter also yields the 'Read-only file system' response.