Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 12:31:26 -0500 From: "Nicolas C. Colicchio" <ncolicc@ibm.net> To: rick hamell <hamellr@dsinw.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Subject: Re: Panic on mounting OS/2 partition (was: "WARNING: / was not properly dismounted" message at reboot time.) Message-ID: <199902271732.RAA42684@out2.ibm.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.990226223426.8031A-100000@dsinw.com> References: <19990227165941.K7279@lemis.com>
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rick hamell wrote: > > > 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. > > I'm willing to bet that Win95 corrupted it's slice, and screwed up > the entire FAT. Mounting the slice itself just quickened something that > was going to happen down the road. Try doing the good ol' fdisk /mbr with > a dos boot disk. After that you may want to boot off of FreeBSD boot > disk, resetup your slices. Then you'll probally have to nuke and reload > Win95 I bet, you maybe able to save it, but I bet that it'll happen again > within three months if you use Win95 fairly often. > > > Rick I don't think this is the Problem here. This setup has been OK for over a Year now. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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