Date: Mon, 11 Sep 1995 11:17:20 -0700 (PDT) From: krd@plaza.ds.adp.com (Keith Dickey) To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Two problems with FreeBSD Message-ID: <199509111817.SAA04980@stealth>
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I have recently installed FreeBSD on a 133 Mhz Pentium based Micron Electronics machine. I have two problems that I would like help with. On a WD 1.62 Gb EIDE hard disk I have DOS and FreeBSD installed, when the DOS partition is the active partition the Boot Manager prompts for the desired operating system and either system can be booted. When the FreeBSD partition is the active partition, I only get the message "Missing Operating System". The machine is hung and the only way out is with hardware reset. I noted that when I installed FreeBSD the machine hung at the point where the install menu indicated a machine re-boot would occur. The DOS partition was modified with the `fips' program to make room for the FreeBSD partition. The `pfdisk' output for the partition table: Partition table on device: 0 geometry 786 64 63 (cyls heads sectors) # ID First(cyl) Last(cyl) Name # start, length(sectors) 1 6 0 253 DOSbi # 63, 1024065 2 165 254 785 unkno # 1024128, 2145024 3 0 0 0 empty # 0,0 4 0 0 0 empty # 0,0 The physical geometry of the disk is: 3148 cyls 16 heads 63 sectors The second problem I have is: I panicked the kernel after doing a cd /; find . -name bash -print. Now when I boot FreeBSD I get the message "WARNING: / was not properly dismounted." The machine hangs and the only way out is with hardware reset. Is there a procedure to boot from floopy disk in order to run `fsck' on the root file system? I didn't catch the exact panic message something to the effect of corrupt file. Keith R. Dickey Software Staff Specialist ADP Dealer Services Portland, OR
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