From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 27 15:58:19 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 BB7EB1509C for ; Sat, 27 Feb 1999 15:58:14 -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 KAA12770; Sun, 28 Feb 1999 10:27:56 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id KAA09958; Sun, 28 Feb 1999 10:27:49 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19990228102749.O7279@lemis.com> Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 10:27:49 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: "Richard E. Hawkins Esq." 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.) References: <19990227165941.K7279@lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: ; from Richard E. Hawkins Esq. on Sat, Feb 27, 1999 at 09:44:54AM -0600 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 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