From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 11 21:58:20 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA02430 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 11 Sep 1997 21:58:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts17-line11.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA02418 for ; Thu, 11 Sep 1997 21:58:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA16675; Thu, 11 Sep 1997 21:58:08 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 21:58:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Mike Fisher cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: hard drive mount problems In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo