Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 13:22:04 -0500 (EST) From: Vince Vielhaber <vev@michvhf.com> To: Phil <ReachMe@Syne-Post.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A boot up problem. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903121313580.18015-100000@paprika.michvhf.com> In-Reply-To: <36E92FFE.A389332F@Syne-Post.com>
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On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, Phil wrote:
> Geeez the ISP where my box is located keeps having power outages on their floor
> from somebody down the hall.
>
> And so they restart the machine (Fortunately they also run FreeBSD) and it won't
> automatically CLEAN the disks and it just stops.
> The sysadmin there manually cleans the disk and then it continues.
>
> Here's a message form him as he is probably more clear than I;
>
> Doubly so because your unix
> system also seems to not want to automatically check the filesystems after
> an improper shutdown, which keeps it from finishing booting until
> it gets some manual intervention. I'm really curious as to why that is,
> and I'd actually like to look into it sometime.
Was this machine upgraded from an older version of FreeBSD? Take a look
at the fstab entries and see what format their in. Newer versions of
FreeBSD won't complete on a dirty boot with old style fstab entries.
Vince.
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