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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
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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