From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sat Jan 9 05:23:21 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47568A69F53 for ; Sat, 9 Jan 2016 05:23:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from eleonora.marchioretti@yahoo.com) Received: from mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (mailman.ysv.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::50:5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A04A1FF1 for ; Sat, 9 Jan 2016 05:23:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from eleonora.marchioretti@yahoo.com) Received: by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) id 07AC9A69F51; Sat, 9 Jan 2016 05:23:21 +0000 (UTC) Delivered-To: questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 075A5A69F50 for ; Sat, 9 Jan 2016 05:23:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from eleonora.marchioretti@yahoo.com) Received: from nm42-vm8.bullet.mail.gq1.yahoo.com (nm42-vm8.bullet.mail.gq1.yahoo.com [67.195.87.159]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CF4971FEF for ; Sat, 9 Jan 2016 05:23:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from eleonora.marchioretti@yahoo.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.com; s=s2048; t=1452316542; bh=kqtsjPqnbu8rJ0uguZ0z12r7Dyfe+AijD6lNLkmP6m0=; h=Date:From:Reply-To:To:Subject:References:From:Subject; b=DdZELc7vBo4jLDjqVszCroHkrlDwzxCFw+JK99+bB86CUQDDVHm2pdgxKU1vMm6jQsA105QwpAnxS8rD+ODrtQrsDMwt4ndxlZk3g6N+6aE2kJXIuF11kWcHbnXb7fpJoE0QGY9TNZcdfB0FoMJb+sOmZ9mO2XIuYhTQWR6WVfludRW/fvLT4Dow81VDWDcY++0L9CJq8OR1eSsfbWVkNrNBkGKKDj2CUJCoLYzmFIfqUPQw4icsN4qkFvJs8phGW0fKF1m32eXyxYAcLiiKEHG5+2SYVLGwVUfm02wfxOUrjg2DiQhJ6qbbM3/qTkY+6KEQDbFHuR3rV++Juu1TqA== Received: from [127.0.0.1] by nm42.bullet.mail.gq1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 09 Jan 2016 05:15:42 -0000 Received: from [216.39.60.180] by nm42.bullet.mail.gq1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 09 Jan 2016 05:12:55 -0000 Received: from [212.82.98.125] by tm16.bullet.mail.gq1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 09 Jan 2016 05:12:55 -0000 Received: from [212.82.98.95] by tm18.bullet.mail.ir2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 09 Jan 2016 05:12:54 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by omp1032.mail.ir2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 09 Jan 2016 05:12:54 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-4 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 826525.41179.bm@omp1032.mail.ir2.yahoo.com X-YMail-OSG: 3t7OfsoVM1k0DXwx8OvY.pjetuwlxCmcIgIyVS7lnk9DrbgNy0OZgw.zCbjxvTw hAHEMp4L.iGRnNp53jzaN5aCsdenuzIyDbJHmFYk1SBOaD7xbC9PadaM9VkEBZBbAOVipc7l8EHv tBWuoZsvIrxYa.OC_2U.i.NW6vRF84HmDgrI0swzYlGUT2MUC_QWHjk3ILWtYAIvIyYV4mBcrbSu _iww22jTNzCJlOmjc.hjrhPBzcGiynaBbAyOgFrvBIl8MXpplrTddgw.mLTJeg2lXYIgKLFqmuFI IDAa8zjNmGrbN4O1ZVSd7aaoijgYSGSnt6xl3jbcB9X0H5kjDJEtu4jMEnmlWhFS20McpODBDmoA DUJxwm5H81xjR5Dz0LveejWwzE92VcuwqowgKPEOlpSt9gGy5V7myGZ9KMLeJ7PiY4kvbm51uEvw b_UZCu9aMFzq6CZNGX3jq0jcOmf6sH1kN0_3V.pZ_BeiYuEztDUtVznmBL2D7xiX2Vm844We_cn9 xbdSLOYORLWk1taPKUEYFZw0xUc0bhl9_wLgE7g-- Received: by 217.12.8.245; Sat, 09 Jan 2016 05:12:54 +0000 Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2016 05:12:54 +0000 (UTC) From: Eleonora Marchioretti Reply-To: Eleonora Marchioretti To: "doc@FreeBSD.org" , "questions@FreeBSD.org" Message-ID: <33018666.1010913.1452316374119.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> Subject: Install Unix on a laptop with Windows OS MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <33018666.1010913.1452316374119.JavaMail.yahoo.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.20 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 09 Jan 2016 05:23:21 -0000 Hi I would like to know if it is possible to install UNIX (not Linux) on a laptop that has already a Windows OS and if you have instructions to do it.Thank you in advance. Best regardsEleonora From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sat Jan 9 07:51:06 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 274BEA68C6A for ; Sat, 9 Jan 2016 07:51:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from markhamb@corp.ssimicro.com) Received: from mail.ssimicro.com (mail.ssimicro.com [64.247.129.10]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "*.ssimicro.com", Issuer "RapidSSL SHA256 CA - G3" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C6DAE1381 for ; Sat, 9 Jan 2016 07:51:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from markhamb@corp.ssimicro.com) Received: from Markhams-MacBook-Pro.local (64-247-136-115.ssimicro.com [64.247.136.115]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail.ssimicro.com (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id u097T60g031179 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT); Sat, 9 Jan 2016 00:29:07 -0700 (MST) Subject: Re: "fsck -y /" keeps saying "Disk is still dirty" no matter how many times I run it To: jd1008 , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <569017FF.9060509@rawbw.com> <569057F6.6060903@gmail.com> From: markham breitbach Message-ID: <5690B7BF.1040505@corp.ssimicro.com> Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2016 00:33:19 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.10; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <569057F6.6060903@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 09 Jan 2016 07:51:06 -0000 On 2016-01-08 5:44 PM, jd1008 wrote: > > On 01/08/2016 05:15 PM, Lars Eighner wrote: >> On Fri, 8 Jan 2016, Yuri wrote: >> >>> As a result of the power outage I needed to run fsck on UFS disk >>> with soft-updates. >>> >>> But every time the command 'fsck -y /' says that it corrected a lot >>> of problems, but it still leaves the disk dirty. I ran it at least >>> 15 times - same result. >> >> Most likely you have a bad sector on your disk. fsck cannot fix this. >> When you write to the disk, hopefully the disk will mark the sector >> bad, and basically hide it. Unfortunately, you cannot mount it to >> write if it is dirty. You can only newfs it, which means goodbye to >> everything since your last backup. After you newfs, you can restore >> from your backup. >> >> >>> >>> What would be the way to proceed from here? >>> >>> (I ran fsck before, but it never happened that fsck keeps finding >>> problems) >>> >>> Thank you, >>> Yuri > Can you boot from a live fbsd cdrom and run fsck > on the boot drive? > Add the option -f -v > Assuming your boot partition and slice is |ada0s1a > |fsck -v -f -y /dev/|ada0s1a 2>&1 | tee /tmp/fsck.out| > > Please provide the file /tmp/fsck.out by uploading it to some sharing > website, and provide the url to it. > > Be sure the drive in question is not mounted. > > It is possible that there are problems with the controller. Can you take the drive and put it into a completely different host? (Ideally as a secondary drive so you can boot without having to mount the drive) -M