From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 26 22:30:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6256814A09 for ; Fri, 26 Feb 1999 22:30:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id QAA10299; Sat, 27 Feb 1999 16:59:53 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id QAA08095; Sat, 27 Feb 1999 16:59:41 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19990227165941.K7279@lemis.com> Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 16:59:41 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: ncolicc@ibm.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Panic on mounting OS/2 partition (was: "WARNING: / was not properly dismounted" message at reboot time.) References: <36D78287.71EEA74@ibm.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <36D78287.71EEA74@ibm.net>; from Nicolas C. colicchio on Sat, Feb 27, 1999 at 12:28:39AM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday, 27 February 1999 at 0:28:39 -0500, Nicolas C. colicchio wrote: > 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. This is a panic. There should have been a message like "panic: don't know what to do now" before the numbers. > 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. Nothing at all? No disk activity? At this point it should be recovering the file systems. This can take a while. > 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. It's not clear from what you're saying whether you *can* reboot the machine. Does it hang, or does it just come back with a prompt after a while? > One of my options is to re-install FreeBSD, This is normally not an option. > however I don't think mounting an incompatible partition should have > gotten my into so much trouble. Indeed. I'd be interested in finding out exactly what happened, but not at the expense of tearing your file systems apart. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message