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From: galtman@Ingres.COM (Gregory Altman)
Subject: Re: 386BSD Refuses to mount drives; mount failure
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Date: 6 May 93 21:34:50 GMT
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Eric John Vette (Calvin@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu) wrote:
: What would make mount fail? More specifically, what would make mount fail in
: those conditions?

Have you tried MKDEV after all of the patches were applied?  I remember that
I had to remake devices to get things to work.  Other then that,
check permissions on mount, /etc, /etc/fstab, /dev and /dev devices.