Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 10:34:30 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Nicolas C. Colicchio" <ncolicc@ibm.net> 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: <19990228103430.Q7279@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199902271732.RAA156300@out2.ibm.net>; from Nicolas C. Colicchio on Sat, Feb 27, 1999 at 12:31:26PM -0500 References: <36D78287.71EEA74@ibm.net>; <19990227165941.K7279@lemis.com> <199902271732.RAA156300@out2.ibm.net>
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On Saturday, 27 February 1999 at 12:31:26 -0500, Nicolas C. Colicchio wrote:
>
> 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.
If it happens again, try to remember the panic string. It's the
closest thing we have to an explanation for the problem.
>>> 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.
It won't change any more.
>>> 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.
No, that wasn't the problem. You'd got past where the active
partition makes any difference.
> I have tried making that partition a FAT partition and no head way.
Change that back immediately. That will definitely screw things up.
> 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
You should boot from the installation disk and then mount the fixit
disk. Is this what you did? Which version of FreeBSD are you using?
> it tells me that I am missing two Boot.* files.
It would be nice if you reported which ones.
Greg
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