From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 12 13: 8:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C702014DE9 for ; Wed, 12 May 1999 13:08:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA02641; Wed, 12 May 1999 13:08:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 13:08:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Jeff Hamilton Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help! FreeBSD won't boot... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 7 May 1999, Jeff Hamilton wrote: > I'm running FreeBSD-2.2.8-STABLE on a Pentium 120 with 64 MB ram. / and > /usr on on a 1 GB ide hard drive on the first ide controller. / is > /dev/wd0s1a, and /usr is /dev/wd0s2e. The /home and other data partitons > are on other disks. > > When I rebooted the PC yesterday to remove a dead floppy drive, FreeBSD > wouldn't boot. It loads the kernel, fsck's all the filesystems (all are > reported clean), and then dies with: > > mount: /dev/wd0s1a on /: Operation not permitted. They aren't clean if you get this in single user mode. Rerun fsck with the -y option against all the filesystems. > It leaves me in single-user mode with a read only / filesystem. I tried > mounting other filesystems, such as /usr, but I get the same error. I > also manually fsck'd all systems, but it still won't mount them. That's the only thing that spits that message in single user, AFAIK. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message