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- From: CCGREG@mizzou1.missouri.edu (Greg Johnson)
- Subject: Re: HELP: Crash in 3.0 results in failure to boot
- Message-ID: <16B52EE0A.CCGREG@mizzou1.missouri.edu>
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- Organization: University of Missouri
- References: <1993Jan7.165156.9501@dolphin.com>
- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 93 16:55:19 CST
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- In article <1993Jan7.165156.9501@dolphin.com>
- Zacharias J. Beckman <zac@dolphin.com> writes:
- >When the system started to boot Mach, it declared that it couldn't write to
- >mtab because the file system was read only!!!
- I found a colleague with a read-only root not long after doing a 3.0
- install. We finally discovered that he copied from the CD-ROM /NeXTCD
- or some such file where the extended version packages are. If a file
- with that name is on /, the new /etc/rc mounts the file-system read-only!
-