mount -uw / does not work in boot -s

[Volker]

On 12/23/-58 20:59, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:
> Neither
>     mount -uw /
>     mount -u -o rw /
>     mount -uw /dev/... /
>     mount -u -o rw /dev/... /
> 
> work. The versions with the /dev/... / do not seem to give an error
> message but a mount afterwards shows that / is still read-only.
> 
> The filesystem was clean upon boot and no fsck was run (I know there
> is another problem after fsck I think).

I think I remember I've had the same (or something similar) on a
6.2-RELEASE box recently (so not just a -CURRENT problem).

I had a typo in fstab and was unable to mount root writeable as the
root fs entry was wrong in fstab. I'm quite unsure how I solved that
problem (can't remember).