From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 27 7:45:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailhub.iastate.edu (mailhub.iastate.edu [129.186.1.102]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97A1915074 for ; Sat, 27 Feb 1999 07:45:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rhawkins@iastate.edu) Received: from eyry.econ.iastate.edu (eyry.econ.iastate.edu [129.186.32.221]) by mailhub.iastate.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA09018; Sat, 27 Feb 1999 09:44:54 -0600 (CST) Received: from eyry.econ.iastate.edu (really [127.0.0.1]) by eyry.econ.iastate.edu via in.smtpd with esmtp (ident hawk using rfc1413) id (Debian Smail3.2.0.101) for ; Sat, 27 Feb 1999 09:44:54 -0600 (EST) Message-Id: X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 (debian) 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: Your message of "Sat, 27 Feb 1999 16:59:41 +1030." <19990227165941.K7279@lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 09:44:54 -0600 From: "Richard E. Hawkins Esq." Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG greg wrote, > > 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. this is also a semi-reproducible result of having an extended partition following the freebsd partition--even without mounting the partition. It will not hang *every* boot, but every several. It will complain every time, though. Linux fdisk doesn't place logical partitions exactly on cylinder bounds, even when given sizes in cylinders, which results in what freebsd sees as a bad disklabel. rick -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message