From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 10 17:49:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA22418 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 10 Oct 1998 17:49:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dagda.ili.net (dagda.ili.net [206.250.201.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA22412 for ; Sat, 10 Oct 1998 17:49:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sarahbell@ili.net) Received: from dogbert.lan (pm6-33.ili.net [205.164.219.202]) by dagda.ili.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA23925; Sat, 10 Oct 1998 20:25:34 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199810110025.UAA23925@dagda.ili.net> From: "Sarah Bell" To: , Subject: Re: URGENT FREEBSD Problem need help Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1998 20:46:15 -0400 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1155 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm guessing the the message " WARNING: / was not properly dismounted." is repeated many times. This is caused by the file systems not being properly synced and unmounted before the computer was shut off, either from a crash or a powerdown without running halt, shutdown or reboot. I've found some recent versions of FreeBSD will not get past this by itself. If you get a message to the effect of "enter shell or press enter for sh", press enter. You should get a # prompt. run 'fsck -y /' and reboot when finished. Now the system should boot normally. BTW, this problem is fixed in some of the later versions of FreeBSD. If you are only getting one 'WARNING: / was not properly dismounted.' and then an indefinite hang, there is some other problem. I'd first try booting to single user mode (by entering '-s' at the 'boot:' prompt). If you get in that way, run fsck as above and reboot. Otherwise, we'll need more information like what version, what hardware, what happened before this started. Jerry Bell ---------- > From: Jeff Miller > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: URGENT FREEBSD Problem need help > Date: Saturday, October 10, 1998 1:27 PM > > Hello, > > My name is Jeff Miller I was running a FREEBSD Internet Server > and I am new to unix and I must get at the log files of it for Their is > an Internet Ivestigation going on that requires the use of my log files. > > But When I went to boot it up there was a problem the screen read. > > Intel Pentium F00F detected, installing workaround > WARNING: / was not properly dismounted. > > and then it hangs and wont go any further. > > I really need your help. > > Any input would be appreaciated. > > Thanks Jeff Miller > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message