From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 26 22:46:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dsinw.com (dsinw.com [207.149.40.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BA651508C for ; Fri, 26 Feb 1999 22:46:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hamellr@dsinw.com) Received: (from hamellr@localhost) by dsinw.com (8.8.8/8.7.3) id WAA09068; Fri, 26 Feb 1999 22:38:53 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 22:38:52 -0800 (PST) From: rick hamell To: Greg Lehey Cc: ncolicc@ibm.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Panic on mounting OS/2 partition (was: "WARNING: / was not properly dismounted" message at reboot time.) In-Reply-To: <19990227165941.K7279@lemis.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 > > 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. I'm willing to bet that Win95 corrupted it's slice, and screwed up the entire FAT. Mounting the slice itself just quickened something that was going to happen down the road. Try doing the good ol' fdisk /mbr with a dos boot disk. After that you may want to boot off of FreeBSD boot disk, resetup your slices. Then you'll probally have to nuke and reload Win95 I bet, you maybe able to save it, but I bet that it'll happen again within three months if you use Win95 fairly often. Rick ---- "Religion exists because man can't belive that he's nothing more then a random accident." http://www.dsinw.com/~hamellr To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message