From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 8 21:21:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA02414 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 8 Feb 1998 21:21:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA02394 for ; Sun, 8 Feb 1998 21:21:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA24959; Sun, 8 Feb 1998 21:20:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Sun, 8 Feb 1998 21:20:58 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: "J. Jordana" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why FreeBSD doesn't like my primary slave HD? In-Reply-To: <199802011632.RAA01517@gnawk.dial.eunet.es> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 1 Feb 1998, J. Jordana wrote: > Primary master: Win 95 only (1.7 GB) > primary slave: Linux only (several Linux partitions) (3.5 GB) > Secondary master: FreeBSD (1 slice with the usual partitions) (3.5 GB) > > > When I try to mount a Linux partition in wd1, >From FreeBSD I assume. > then after about 10/15 > seconds of trying to mount it (nice probing sounds coming too out of > the box), it finally mounts it. From then on I can move around the Linux > mounted slice without problem. Unmounting it is fast and silent. That should not work. What is your mount command line? ext2fs isn't supported, I think. I could be wrong... > I tried disklable from /stand/sysinstall (also 10/15 seconds trying something > - probably wd1- after launching /stand/sysinstall, before getting into the > menu screen !!) but when a configured one of the slices into a FreeBSD > system and did a 'W' I saw some very brief message saying something like: > 'ufs_fs unexpected recursive lock'. The slice got newfs'ed, but after > that I got a kernel panic. Now I have a FreeBSD slice at the end of wd1, > I can also mount to it, but always with the same painful probing and > delay. wd0 == DOS (primary master) wd1 == Linux disk (primary slave) wd2 == FreeBSD disk (secondary master) You are probably going to hose your linux disk this way. Or else sysinstall is confused about your Linux partition and is trying to mount it as a FreeBSD partition. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe questions" in the body of the message