Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 10:55:46 -0500 (EST) From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: ReachMe@Syne-Post.com (Phil) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A boot up problem. Message-ID: <199903121555.KAA00657@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <36E92FFE.A389332F@Syne-Post.com> from Phil at "Mar 12, 99 10:17:18 am"
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Phil wrote,
> And so they restart the machine (Fortunately they also run FreeBSD) and it won't
> automatically CLEAN the disks and it just stops.
> The sysadmin there manually cleans the disk and then it continues.
>
> Here's a message form him as he is probably more clear than I;
>
> Doubly so because your unix
> system also seems to not want to automatically check the filesystems after
> an improper shutdown, which keeps it from finishing booting until
> it gets some manual intervention. I'm really curious as to why that is,
> and I'd actually like to look into it sometime.
>
> Well that actually doesn't look very technical to me does it.
>
> Anyhow. What can I do to find out why it doesn't want to automatically check the
> file system and clean it??
One of the first things in /etc/rc is,
if [ $1x = autobootx ]; then
echo Automatic reboot in progress...
fsck -p
case $? in
0)
;;
2)
exit 1
;;
4)
reboot
echo "reboot failed... help!"
exit 1
;;
8)
echo "Automatic file system check failed... help!"
exit 1
;;
12)
echo "Reboot interrupted"
exit 1
;;
130)
# interrupt before catcher installed
exit 1
;;
*)
echo "Unknown error in reboot"
exit 1
;;
esac
else
echo Skipping disk checks ...
fi
Find out whcih message is being produced.
--
Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com
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