From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 17 11: 0:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail-atm.maine.rr.com (ns.maine.rr.com [204.210.64.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D73B1139E for ; Wed, 17 Feb 1999 11:00:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lethvian@maine.rr.com) Received: from maine.rr.com (dt074nb0.maine.rr.com [24.93.136.176]) by mail-atm.maine.rr.com (8.8.7/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA11546 for ; Wed, 17 Feb 1999 14:00:07 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <36CB125F.2592AF9C@maine.rr.com> Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 14:02:56 -0500 From: "Daniel J. Frost" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Trouble during upgrade from 2.2.8 to 3.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Everything went well, but I made the mistake of using my custom kernel opposed to the GENERIC kernel provided during installation. So when I rebooted, my kernel was a.out but my system was ELF. Because of this, the root_device (wd1s1a) is read only. I can read everything perfectly, but I can't change it or mount any partitions. I've tried using fixit 3.1-r, and was successful in mounting all devices except /. Without being able to write to wd1s1a (root fs), I can't switch kernels. I've tried mount -o rw /, but that just gives me a signal 12 error. When in fixit, a similar error when trying to mount /dev/wd1s1a readable/writeable. As said before, I can mount the root device fine, but only in a read only environment. I appreciate your time, and I hope one of you people will be able to help me out. -Dan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message