From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 11 13:24:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA02480 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 11 Oct 1998 13:24:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dagda.ili.net (dagda.ili.net [206.250.201.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA02474 for ; Sun, 11 Oct 1998 13:24:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jerrybell@ili.net) Received: from dogbert.lan (pm6-3.ili.net [205.164.219.172]) by dagda.ili.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA23709; Sun, 11 Oct 1998 16:00:36 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199810112000.QAA23709@dagda.ili.net> From: "Jerry Bell" To: "Sarah Bell" Cc: Subject: Re: URGENT FREEBSD Problem need help Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1998 16:17:53 -0400 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1155 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG True, but I believe there was a problem during a specific period where any incositencies would prevent booting while displaying about 20 or 30 lines of WARNING: / was not properly dismounted. The problems are corrected in the latest versions of -stable. Jerry Bell ---------- > From: Dan Busarow > To: Sarah Bell > Cc: millert@direct.ca; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: URGENT FREEBSD Problem need help > Date: Sunday, October 11, 1998 2:42 PM > > On Sat, 10 Oct 1998, Sarah Bell wrote: > > or a powerdown without running halt, shutdown or reboot. I've found some > > recent versions of FreeBSD will not get past this by itself. If you get a > > message to the effect of "enter shell or press enter for sh", press enter. > > You should get a # prompt. run 'fsck -y /' and reboot when finished. Now > > the system should boot normally. > > BTW, this problem is fixed in some of the later versions of FreeBSD. > > While most of Sarah's information is correct, this is not a problem > related to the version of FreeBSD. Whether or not the system will > automatically recover and continue the boot depends entirely on the > type of file system inconsistencies encountered while running the automatic > fsck. If the file system is OK or repairable (man fsck for the short list > of errors fsck -p will fix) it'll be mounted. If it has any other errors > you'll get the "press enter for sh" prompt. > > Basically, don't turn off the system without running shutdown -h :) > > Dan > -- > Dan Busarow 949 443 4172 > Dana Point Communications, a California corporation dan@dpcsys.com > Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message