From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 27 23:35: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from out4.ibm.net (out4.ibm.net [165.87.194.239]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FA6F151C1 for ; Sat, 27 Feb 1999 23:35:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ncolicc@ibm.net) Received: from smtp-gw01.ny.us.ibm.net (slip129-37-163-23.on.ca.ibm.net [129.37.163.23]) by out4.ibm.net (8.8.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id HAA12140; Sun, 28 Feb 1999 07:34:35 GMT Message-Id: <199902280734.HAA12140@out4.ibm.net> From: ncolicc@ibm.net (Nicolas C. Colicchio) Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 00:09:53 -0500 To: Greg Lehey In-Reply-To: <19990228103430.Q7279@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.) X-Mailer: MR/2 Internet Cruiser Edition for OS/2 v1.52 b52 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 02/28/99 at 10:34 AM, Greg Lehey said: >>>> 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. I not sure if you mean it is stuck that way or your asking . I did try again this time I left the computer for 2 1/2 hours and the no change no disk activity. nothing. >>>> 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. I did. It was a short lived test hoping that if the reboot is trying to remount that partition and I had it as a more acceptable file system. it may get passed the error and let me get on so that I could unmount it. >> 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? Actually this is not what I had done. I had tried booting form the Fixit diskette. This is why It complained that it could not find the Boot.Config and Boot.help files and that there was no kernel. I tried the installation diskette and was able to use the Live Filesystem on The second CDrom. However I was unable to access the Hard disk so that I could repair it. Am I suppost to try and mount the Hard disk. When I enter the mount command it only reports back that the CD-rom is the only dev mounted. I've tried with the Fixit Diskette and I don't seemed to be able to get a prompt. Perhaps something is preventing the fixit diskette from working properly. I am running FreeBSD 2.2.8 - release #0 >> it tells me that I am missing two Boot.* files. >It would be nice if you reported which ones. see above comment for which ones. -- ----------------------------------------------------------- ncolicc@ibm.net (Nicolas C. Colicchio) nicolas.colicchio@bmo.com MR/2 ICE #20600 ----------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message