From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 23 05:17:41 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id FAA11894 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 23 Sep 1996 05:17:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from root.com (implode.root.com [198.145.90.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id FAA11859 for ; Mon, 23 Sep 1996 05:17:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by root.com (8.7.5/8.6.5) with SMTP id FAA01740; Mon, 23 Sep 1996 05:18:32 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199609231218.FAA01740@root.com> X-Authentication-Warning: implode.root.com: Host localhost [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: Adrian Coppin cc: adrianc@showtimearabia.com, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD wont boot on my PC now **URGENT URGENT** Help Help In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 23 Sep 1996 13:03:22 PDT." <3246ED0A.7911@waverider.co.uk> From: David Greenman Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 05:18:32 -0700 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >My name is Adrian Coppin and I am currently setting up an Internet Email >server sittingf on FreeBSD, after much playing about with my IDE CDROM >drive I have eventually installed the software and added a user. I then >typed "shutdown -r now" on the system prompt and let the system reset >itself and it runs through the startup and gets to a point that says >"WARNING: / was not propely dismounted" it then runs for about 30 seconds > checking the diskd etc and defragmetting I think and then it hangs with >a message "CLEAN FLAG NOT SET IN SUPERBLOCK" and now it just sits there >doing naff all with no disk activity at all. It shouldn't be finding your filesystem unclean unless you're powering off or resetting the machine without shutting it down completely fist, but in any case, this isn't what's causing the hang... The hang is most likely occuring because, after the filesystem checks, the system configures your network devices and is likely hanging because it can't resolve any hostnames and/or perhaps because it doesn't have the correct setting for the ethernet media type. Do you have an ethernet card in the machine, and if so, what type is it? Try typing one or two ctrl-C's when it has hung...this will kill off the hanging ifconfig command. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project