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Date:      Sat, 14 Jul 2001 22:39:47 -0400
From:      Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        Noone Here <oldtlhingan@hotmail.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cant chflags noschg /kernel in any mode
Message-ID:  <20010714223947.A62241@shumai.marcuscom.com>
In-Reply-To: <F267dkSmLAztxc1o8yf000005dd@hotmail.com>; from oldtlhingan@hotmail.com on Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 22:27:53 -0400
References:  <F267dkSmLAztxc1o8yf000005dd@hotmail.com>

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Have you tried booting into single user mode, and running

mount -uw /

to make / read-write?  You should be able to remove the immutable bit then.

Joe Clarke


On 2001.07.14 22:27 Noone Here wrote:
> i boot to single user mode, but i cant do anything to my kernel. as root
> i 
> dont seem to have permission to write or move it. i tried to chmod 755
> it, 
> but cant.
> 
> ls -lo shows /kernel permissions r-xr-xr-x and schg.
> 
> i boot normally,become super user, try chflags noschg /kernel, i get 
> operation noy permitted. i boot and login as root, same thing. i boot to 
> single user mode, same thing. i try to chmod, i get "read-only file
> system" 
> message. i raise securelevel from single user -1 to 0 and still get same 
> messages.
> 
> im trying to install MYKERNEL, but make installkernel KERNEL=MYKERNEL
> fails 
> because it cant remove this immutable bit and cant mv /kernel -> 
> /kernel.old. i did a make buildworld, and a make buildkernel
> KERNEL=MYKERNEL 
> that worked without error.
> 
> what am i missing or doing wrong here?
> 
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