From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 27 16: 4:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50F401517A for ; Sat, 27 Feb 1999 16:04:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id KAA12778; Sun, 28 Feb 1999 10:34:31 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id KAA09979; Sun, 28 Feb 1999 10:34:30 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19990228103430.Q7279@lemis.com> Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 10:34:30 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: "Nicolas C. Colicchio" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Panic on mounting OS/2 partition (was: "WARNING: / was not properly dismounted" message at reboot time.) References: <36D78287.71EEA74@ibm.net>; <19990227165941.K7279@lemis.com> <199902271732.RAA156300@out2.ibm.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <199902271732.RAA156300@out2.ibm.net>; from Nicolas C. Colicchio on Sat, Feb 27, 1999 at 12:31:26PM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday, 27 February 1999 at 12:31:26 -0500, Nicolas C. Colicchio wrote: > > 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. If it happens again, try to remember the panic string. It's the closest thing we have to an explanation for the problem. >>> 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. It won't change any more. >>> 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. No, that wasn't the problem. You'd got past where the active partition makes any difference. > I have tried making that partition a FAT partition and no head way. Change that back immediately. That will definitely screw things up. > 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 You should boot from the installation disk and then mount the fixit disk. Is this what you did? Which version of FreeBSD are you using? > it tells me that I am missing two Boot.* files. It would be nice if you reported which ones. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message