Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 16:59:41 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: ncolicc@ibm.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Panic on mounting OS/2 partition (was: "WARNING: / was not properly dismounted" message at reboot time.) Message-ID: <19990227165941.K7279@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <36D78287.71EEA74@ibm.net>; from Nicolas C. colicchio on Sat, Feb 27, 1999 at 12:28:39AM -0500 References: <36D78287.71EEA74@ibm.net>
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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.
> 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.
> I tried Ctrl-Atl-Del after sometime the system then syncs itself and
> reboots. I have added the the -v option at boot time and the
> additional messages before the warning indicate that the dev/wd0s? I
> had mounted are listed.
>
> I guess I need to remove those from the boot sequence but I cannot
> get past the warning message each time I reboot the machine.
It's not clear from what you're saying whether you *can* reboot the
machine. Does it hang, or does it just come back with a prompt after
a while?
> 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.
Greg
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