From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 26 21:32: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from out5.ibm.net (out5.ibm.net [165.87.194.243]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57D07150C2 for ; Fri, 26 Feb 1999 21:31:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ncolicc@ibm.net) Received: from ibm.net (slip129-37-161-134.on.ca.ibm.net [129.37.161.134]) by out5.ibm.net (8.8.5/8.6.9) with ESMTP id FAA18870 for ; Sat, 27 Feb 1999 05:31:14 GMT Message-ID: <36D78287.71EEA74@ibm.net> Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 00:28:39 -0500 From: "Nicolas C. colicchio" Reply-To: ncolicc@ibm.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: "WARNING: / was not properly dismounted" message at reboot time. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG If someone has had this happen to them could they pass on how to get arround it. I have a Pentium 90 machine with multiple OS's on it. FreeBSD is one of them. I am reletively new to Unix and FreeBSD. I had partitioned my first drive: OS/2 Boot manager/ MSDOS / Win95 / FreeBSD. I was trying to mount the different partiions to FreeBSD to identify which dev/wd0s? was with witch partition. I had successfully mounted the MSDOS partition and was able to read it aswell mount the Win95 partition. I attempted the next one in line {/dev/wd0s4} in hind site i should have guessed it was the OS/2 Boot manager partion. when I had mounted the partition this triggered off something because some numbers spewd across the bottom of the screen and the system rebooted itself. upon rebooting the kernel would load. I know this because I can see the deviceses being polled. When it identifies the my pentium chip it then gives me a message : Warning: / was not properly dismounted It then sits there and does nothing. I tried Ctrl-Atl-Del after sometime the system then syncs itself and reboots. I have added the the -v option at boot time and the additional messages before the warning indicate that the dev/wd0s? I had mounted are listed. I guess I need to remove those from the boot sequence but I cannot get past the warning message each time I reboot the machine. One of my options is to re-install FreeBSD, however I don't think mounting an incompatible partition should have gotten my into so much trouble. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message