From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 12 10:22:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from paprika.michvhf.com (paprika.michvhf.com [209.57.60.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7C29414D91 for ; Fri, 12 Mar 1999 10:22:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from vev@michvhf.com) Received: (qmail 18395 invoked by uid 1001); 12 Mar 1999 18:22:04 -0000 Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 13:22:04 -0500 (EST) From: Vince Vielhaber To: Phil Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A boot up problem. In-Reply-To: <36E92FFE.A389332F@Syne-Post.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, Phil wrote: > Geeez the ISP where my box is located keeps having power outages on their floor > from somebody down the hall. > > 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. Was this machine upgraded from an older version of FreeBSD? Take a look at the fstab entries and see what format their in. Newer versions of FreeBSD won't complete on a dirty boot with old style fstab entries. Vince. -- ========================================================================== Vince Vielhaber -- KA8CSH email: vev@michvhf.com flame-mail: /dev/null # include TEAM-OS2 Online Campground Directory http://www.camping-usa.com Online Giftshop Superstore http://www.cloudninegifts.com ========================================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message