From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 6 21:58:50 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA10516 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 6 Aug 1996 21:58:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts12-line16.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.148]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA10503 for ; Tue, 6 Aug 1996 21:58:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id VAA00348; Tue, 6 Aug 1996 21:58:18 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 6 Aug 1996 21:58:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: "Kamil Lusnak CZECHREP(UTC +02:00)" cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD File System Read-only ??? In-Reply-To: <199608061701.KAA29998@freefall.freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 6 Aug 1996, Kamil Lusnak CZECHREP(UTC +02:00) wrote: > I have IBM-PC 486/66 with HDD MAXTOR 527MB (divided to DOS 50M/BSD 450M). > After installation of FreeBSD 2.1.5 I received msg.:"MAKEDEV returned non-zero > status" and after restart when I tried to start a command I received this msg: > "... Read-only file system ..." Hm. Sounds like you had a failed install, and installed over it, and ruined the partition. I'd blow away the FreeBSD slice with DOS FDISK or similar and reinstall. If you have a problem during the install, then blow away the slice again and start all the way over. > P.S: > After boot I have mounted only "/" other was not mounted "/usr; /var" You may be in single-user mode. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major