From owner-freebsd-questions  Sat Feb 27  9:33:26 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 5313715106
	for <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>; Sat, 27 Feb 1999 09:33:24 -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 RAA42684; Sat, 27 Feb 1999 17:32:57 GMT
Message-Id: <199902271732.RAA42684@out2.ibm.net>
From: "Nicolas C. Colicchio" <ncolicc@ibm.net>
To: rick hamell <hamellr@dsinw.com>
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, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
References: <19990227165941.K7279@lemis.com>
In-reply-to: <Pine.BSF.3.91.990226223426.8031A-100000@dsinw.com>
X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01d)
Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Precedence: bulk
X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG


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