mount -uw / does not work in boot -s

[Martin Cracauer]

Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote on Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 09:31:49PM +0000: 
> Hi,
> 
> if you boot -s on a HEAD and try to mount -uw / it will fail to update
> the mount if you do not have a /etc/fstab. The fstab part is the key
> to this. With an /etc/fstab everything seems to work just smoothly but
> how to touch the fstab if you cannot mount the fs rw?
> 
> Neither
> 	mount -uw /
> 	mount -u -o rw /
> 	mount -uw /dev/... /
> 	mount -u -o rw /dev/... /

I had the same problem recently.  For me, just 

mount -u /

worked, and even if the fstab entry was having the wrong device.

Martin
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