Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 23:30:36 +0930 (CST) From: Peter Childs <pjchilds@imforei.apana.org.au> To: adrianc@waverider.co.uk (Adrian Coppin), adrianc@showtimearabia.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD wont boot on my PC now **URGENT URGENT** Help Help Message-ID: <199609231400.XAA27852@al.imforei.apana.org.au>
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In article <3246ED0A.7911@waverider.co.uk> you wrote: : Hi, Gday : My name is Adrian Coppin and I am currently setting up an Internet Email : server sittingf on FreeBSD, after much playing about with my IDE CDROM : drive I have eventually installed the software and added a user. I then : typed "shutdown -r now" on the system prompt and let the system reset : itself and it runs through the startup and gets to a point that says : "WARNING: / was not propely dismounted" it then runs for about 30 seconds : checking the diskd etc and defragmetting I think and then it hangs with : a message "CLEAN FLAG NOT SET IN SUPERBLOCK" and now it just sits there : doing naff all with no disk activity at all. Ouch. This doesn't sound too good. Try booting single user and then manually "fsck" ing your disks... to do this when the boot: prompt comes up type "-s" this should get you a basic single user shell. check the contents of /etc/fstab (ie type "cat /etc/fstab") and see if its all correct... then try "fsck" to clean the filesystems... if this succeeds try "exit" to go multiuser... you might need to boot also with the "-c" configure option and disable all devices you are not using.. Peter -- Peter Childs --- http://www.imforei.apana.org.au/~pjchilds Finger pjchilds@al.imforei.apana.org.au for public PGP key Drag me, drop me, treat me like an object!
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