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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!news.bri.connect.com.au!corolla.OntheNet.com.au!news From: Tony Griffiths <tonyg@onthenet.com.au> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Urgent! Can't mount root device any more Date: Sat, 29 Jun 1996 17:46:56 +1000 Organization: Network Technologies P/L Lines: 32 Message-ID: <31D4DF70.167E@onthenet.com.au> References: <4r0csb$8mn@winx03.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: pulsar.nt.com.au Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (X11; I; OSF1 V3.2 alpha) To: Hans-Joachim Both <i245@stio1> Hans-Joachim Both wrote: > > Hi everybody, > > due to some problems with the power supply this morning > all machines on my floor went down:) > > normally no problem, but this time the pc with free bsd 2.1 > on it don't want to come back. of course I did the disk > checks but I cant manage to mount the root partition under / > > the automated disk check in rc says that all partitions are > clean, the mount says: > > /dev/wd0a on /: Operation not permitted > > does anybody know how to convince bsd to mount the root partition? > > Help appreciated, > > with best regards, > > job@linpc9.sari.fh-wuerzburg.de If you have booted into single-user and manually done the fsck, have you tried- # mount -a -t ufs to see if you can get the root partition mounted! Tony