happyman Posted October 16, 2007 Share Posted October 16, 2007 HI , I've been away from OSX since 10.4.5 and thought I'd give it another go. I trashed my Mac install trying to get QE/CI going. After booting into single user mode, root was mounted as read-only so I coudn't write my backed up kexts to the extensions folder. I've now got a clean install again, and want to start fiddling with kexts but I need to be able to restore my files and avoid yet aother install (poor hard disk!), if it doesn't work. I'm sure it's simple but how can i mount the disk as writeable. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lucaspeed Posted October 16, 2007 Share Posted October 16, 2007 fsck -fy mount -uw / That's all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happyman Posted October 16, 2007 Author Share Posted October 16, 2007 ThanksJust tried it. Didn't work.Prompt said "root_on_device(local, read-only, journaled)When I tried to copy something it said "this disk is read only"Any ideas ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lucaspeed Posted October 16, 2007 Share Posted October 16, 2007 It's the standard method. It's written even in the last lines before the prompt when you boot with -s What do you do to boot with the prompt? What version of osx are you using? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happyman Posted October 16, 2007 Author Share Posted October 16, 2007 Hi, its OSX 10.4.9. I press F8 and at the boot prompt type -v -s It says those standard things about writing files or booting in single user, but the root is still read only after typing fsck -fy mount -uw I don't know much about bash commands. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lucaspeed Posted October 16, 2007 Share Posted October 16, 2007 you must add the slash at the end mount -uw / Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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