From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 17 23:32:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from relay.ucb.crimea.ua (relay.ucb.crimea.ua [212.110.138.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD89C10E56 for ; Wed, 17 Feb 1999 23:31:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ru@ucb.crimea.ua) Received: (from ru@localhost) by relay.ucb.crimea.ua (8.9.2/8.9.2/UCB) id JAA48611; Thu, 18 Feb 1999 09:29:52 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from ru) Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 09:29:52 +0200 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: "Daniel J. Frost" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Trouble during upgrade from 2.2.8 to 3.0 Message-ID: <19990218092952.A47611@ucb.crimea.ua> Mail-Followup-To: "Daniel J. Frost" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <36CB125F.2592AF9C@maine.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.94.17i In-Reply-To: <36CB125F.2592AF9C@maine.rr.com>; from Daniel J. Frost on Wed, Feb 17, 1999 at 02:02:56PM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Feb 17, 1999 at 02:02:56PM -0500, Daniel J. Frost wrote: > 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 > Attach your disk to another running FreeBSD system, then copy the desired kernel onto it. HTH, -- Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA of the ru@ucb.crimea.ua United Commercial Bank +380.652.247.647 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message