Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 12:31:26 -0500 From: "Nicolas C. Colicchio" <ncolicc@ibm.net> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Panic on mounting OS/2 partition (was: "WARNING: / was not properly dismounted" message at reboot time.) Message-ID: <199902271732.RAA156300@out2.ibm.net> In-Reply-To: <19990227165941.K7279@lemis.com> References: <36D78287.71EEA74@ibm.net>; from Nicolas C. colicchio on Sat, Feb 27, 1999 at 12:28:39AM -0500
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Here is some more information....
> 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.
>
I guess I missed that message. It would make sense. The OS/2 partition is
is a 2 MB partition setup by the OS/2 fdisk to enable booting to
different OS's. My OS/2 partition is on my second Hard disk in a
HPFS partition.
> > 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.
>
Yes there is no Disk activity... I have left it for upto 15 minutes with no change.
> > 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?
>
It hangs ..... no prompt appears. I hit CTRL-ALT-DEL keys and after some time the
disk sync message appears and a rebooting message appears.
> > 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.
Some Things I have tried since my first posting of this note:
I have booted up under OS/2 and remove the the Boot Manger
Partition. Made the FreeBSD partition the Active partition and
FreeBSD will still not come active. I have tried making that partition
a FAT partition and no head way.
From the DOS partition I created a FreeBSD Fixit disk from the
CDrom. I've booted from Diskette however I am sure to use the
diskette to bring up a Unix system it tells me that I am missing two
Boot.* files. Perhaps I could boot from the Live system CD. But
my BIOS does not support booting from CDrom.
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