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Date:      Thu, 11 Sep 1997 21:58:08 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Mike Fisher <mfisher@harborcom.net>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: hard drive mount problems
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970911215744.16497R-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970909114614.10282A-100000@ns2.harborcom.net>

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On Tue, 9 Sep 1997, Mike Fisher wrote:

> I am running a FreeBSD 2.2.2-Stable system (last update and make world
> 9/4).  It has been working like a charm up until this morning.  I tried to
> do a reboot, and got the following message after the kernel loaded
> successfully (initialized all the devices, etc):
> 
> /dev/sd0a on /: Operation not permitted
> Filesystem mount failed, startup aborted.
> 
> I can fsck all my partitions, but they will not mount (not even
> read-only).  Is there any way that I can render the system usable again?
> I have backups, but would REALLY prefer to be able to do some command that
> will magically fix it.

`chmod +r /dev/sd0a' ?  You may have to use the fixit floppy.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major
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