From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 27 9:33:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from out2.ibm.net (out2.ibm.net [165.87.194.229]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2323150ED for ; Sat, 27 Feb 1999 09:33:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ncolicc@ibm.net) Received: from gabreil (slip129-37-160-85.on.ca.ibm.net [129.37.160.85]) by out2.ibm.net (8.8.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id RAA156300; Sat, 27 Feb 1999 17:32:54 GMT Message-Id: <199902271732.RAA156300@out2.ibm.net> From: "Nicolas C. Colicchio" To: Greg Lehey Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 12:31:26 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Panic on mounting OS/2 partition (was: "WARNING: / was not properly dismounted" message at reboot time.) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <19990227165941.K7279@lemis.com> References: <36D78287.71EEA74@ibm.net>; from Nicolas C. colicchio on Sat, Feb 27, 1999 at 12:28:39AM -0500 X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01d) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Here is some more information.... > 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. > I guess I missed that message. It would make sense. The OS/2 partition is is a 2 MB partition setup by the OS/2 fdisk to enable booting to different OS's. My OS/2 partition is on my second Hard disk in a HPFS partition. > > 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. > > 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? > It hangs ..... no prompt appears. I hit CTRL-ALT-DEL keys and after some time the disk sync message appears and a rebooting message appears. > > 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. I have tried making that partition a FAT partition and no head way. 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 it tells me that I am missing two Boot.* files. Perhaps I could boot from the Live system CD. But my BIOS does not support booting from CDrom. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message