From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 7 11:27:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from destiny.erols.com (destiny.erols.com [207.96.73.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44CCB14E46 for ; Fri, 7 May 1999 11:27:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gandolf@destiny.erols.com) Received: from localhost (gandolf@localhost) by destiny.erols.com (8.9.3/8.6.12) with ESMTP id OAA65887 for ; Fri, 7 May 1999 14:26:59 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 14:26:59 -0400 (EDT) From: Jeff Hamilton To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Help! FreeBSD won't boot... 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 Hi. 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. 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. What would cause this, and how do I fix it? Please reply to me - I'm not on the mailing list. Thanks. Jeff Hamilton gandolf@destiny.erols.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message