Hi All, After having done a near-flawless update of one 8.1 sys I started to update my other system. Things went properly until the installer/update process got to the point of booting from the HD for the first time, to continue the update. The boot starts and proceeds well, but after a few screens of the typical boot msgs a lot of "Can't do this or that : real only filesystem" msgs start to pile up. Eventually the non-graphic text msg : "XXX Login: " appears but when I type 'root' it replies: "FATAL: cannot change permission of TTY - read only file system" and login is impossible. I tried re-starting the update from the start w/o success. Same result. I have gotten the rescue system to start but I am a loss as to how to proceed. I think that resetting the 'read/write' status of the / partition might do it but the rescue sys is cryptic at best. The HD is reiserfs from 8.1, boot is in a seperate partition. Can anyone help me here? PeterB