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From: nam@risky.ecs.umass.edu (Joonwoo Nam)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: FreeBSD 2.0R: help booting the box
Date: 7 Dec 1994 03:19:07 GMT
Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
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I was trying to rebuild the kernel but something was wrong with
the configuration so that I decided to reconfigure it. However,
since I cannot login as root, which I now think must have been
fixed easily, I inadvertently used the boot floppy and selected
fixit menu.

fdisk - disklabel - proceed was fine until I met the message:

Fatal - Couldn't open /mnt/kernel: Operation not permitted

This happened after fsck'ing all the partitions and unzipping
/stand/sysinstall onto the harddisk.
I guess the root partition refuses to be mounted read-write.

Since I still have a release kernel(I renamed it kernel.orig) in
root partition, I was trying to boot with 'kernel.orig -a' at the
boot prompt to fix the problem but in vain.

Is there any way I can do fix easily ?
Could someone enlighten me ?
Otherwise, I have to install all the stuffs again.

Thanks in advance,
J.

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Joonwoo Nam                                     nam@nazgul.ecs.umass.edu
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering    work: 413-545-4762
University of Massachusetts at Amherst          fax : 413-545-4611
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