make installworld - permission denied

[Joshua Lokken]

On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 20:14:13 -0800, Mark <mark at darklogik.org> wrote:
> Urgh, it was all going so well. I suppose it had to happen:
> 
> I did as the hallowed handbook commanded:
> 
> #make buildworld
> #make buildkernel KERNCONF=L004
> #make installkernel
> 
> I rebooted into single user mode:
> 
> #mount -a
> #cd /usr/src
> #mergemaster -p
> #make installworld
> (setting of variables omitted, i'm typing from the screen!)
> /tmp/install.XXXXXXXX make -f Makefile.inc1 reinstall
> make: Permission denied
> 
> ***Error code 126
> Stop in /usr/src
> 
> ***Error code 1
> Stop in /usr/src

After you boot into single-user mode, you should do:

# fsck -p
# mount -u /
             ^^^  to remount / read-write
# mount -a -tufs
...
...

HTH,
-- 
Joshua Lokken
Open Source Advocate