Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 10:27:49 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Richard E. Hawkins Esq." <rhawkins@iastate.edu> 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.) Message-ID: <19990228102749.O7279@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <m10GlvC-000P4nC@eyry.econ.iastate.edu>; from Richard E. Hawkins Esq. on Sat, Feb 27, 1999 at 09:44:54AM -0600 References: <19990227165941.K7279@lemis.com> <m10GlvC-000P4nC@eyry.econ.iastate.edu>
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On Saturday, 27 February 1999 at 9:44:54 -0600, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: > 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. I can't relate to that. Could you explain the problem, please? 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
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