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To: Bill Beavers <bbeavers@Moonraker.afsc.k12.ar.us>
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Subject: Re: dmesg message 
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 08:42:57 -0800
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>
>Since my box seems to reboot itself every now and then due to (I think) a 
>flakey cylades board, now when I reboot and do a dmesg, I get this at the 
>bottom...
>
>changing root device to sd0a
>WARNING: / was not properly dismounted.
>de0: enabling BNC port  
>
>Since / was not properly dismounted, what will that do, and what steps to 
>I need to take to make it right again and have it mount back so that I 
>don't have this WARNING!

   The thing that causes the warning (unclean filesystem) is fixed during the
startup procedure...so it fixes itself. If you rebooted normally after this,
you would not see the warning.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project