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To: AlexAdroog@aol.com
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Subject: Re: Superblock error (part 2) 
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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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Date: Tue, 23 May 1995 18:50:26 -0700
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>In a message dated 95-05-23 16:37:18 EDT, AlexAdroog@aol.com writes:
>
>>It seems that upon every boot or fsck that I am receiving and error
>>"CLEAN
>>FLAG IS WRONG IN SUPERBLOCK". The system will boot  with the clean
>>flag and
>>then fsck will attemp to fix it. Sometimes it will fix it and carry
>>on,
>>othertimes it will abort with a panic. By running fsck manually it
>>seems to
>>clean up the problem yet, upon a reboot, I get the error again, and
>>again.
>>Does anyone have any suggestions or ideas as to the nature of this
>>problem?
>>
>>ThanX, Timothy
>
>I have a home brew system....
>"IBM" - 486sl2/66 Chip (i am thinking it may well be a cyrix chip, though I
>am not sure.)
>Maxtor 7546 drive (PCDOS -  200, FreeBSD 250)
>Totally generic vlb controller. standard serial and par.
>Diamond vid-card.
>
>Now as far as startup and shutdown goes..
>I am bringing the system to halt (shutdown -h) before powering off the
>machine, although I am using reboot (shutdown -r) to simply reboot the
>machine. I will halt the machine and then reset it before going to dos. Is
>this correct? It seems that during the boot sequence it seems to go up fine,
>yet upon running fsck it will show me the error. Though sometimes it will
>pick it up at boot time and go into a panic sequence and reboot. It seems
>that even when fsck fixes the problem it is in all actuallity still there, or
>returns frequntly after being fixed. Thanx for your time and help!!


   Does the system say "The operating system has halted" when it halts, and
does it say "Rebooting..." when it is rebooting? If it doesn't make it this
far, then the filesystems won't be properly dismounted, and thus the error.
It can take as much as 30 seconds or more for the system to reach this point,
so could the problem be that you haven't waited long enough?

-DG