From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 9 08:58:26 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id IAA16883 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 9 Sep 1997 08:58:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ns2.harborcom.net (root@ns2.harborcom.net [206.158.4.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id IAA16876 for ; Tue, 9 Sep 1997 08:58:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (mfisher@localhost) by ns2.harborcom.net (8.8.7/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA12580 for ; Tue, 9 Sep 1997 11:58:13 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 9 Sep 1997 11:58:12 -0400 (EDT) From: Mike Fisher To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: hard drive mount problems 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 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. To my knowledge I haven't done anything to the system that would cause any problems mounting the sd0 partitions. (I was trying to allow easier access so that I could mount /dev/fd0 as a non-root user) Any tips would be greatly appreciated. Thank you! -- Mike "I swear - by my life and by my love of it - that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine." --Ayn Rand, _Atlas Shrugged_