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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!world!news.mtholyoke.edu!news.umass.edu!risky.ecs.umass.edu!nam 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 Lines: 32 Message-ID: <3c39jb$73d@risky.ecs.umass.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: nazgul.ecs.umass.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] 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. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------