Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 00:09:53 -0500 From: ncolicc@ibm.net (Nicolas C. Colicchio) To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Panic on mounting OS/2 partition (was: "WARNING: / was not properly dismounted" message at reboot time.) Message-ID: <199902280734.HAA12140@out4.ibm.net> In-Reply-To: <19990228103430.Q7279@lemis.com>
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On 02/28/99 at 10:34 AM, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> said:
>>>> 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.
I not sure if you mean it is stuck that way or your asking .
I did try again this time I left the computer for 2 1/2 hours and the no
change no disk activity. nothing.
>>>> 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.
I did. It was a short lived test hoping that if the reboot is trying to
remount that partition and I had it as a more acceptable file system. it
may get passed the error and let me get on so that I could unmount it.
>> 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?
Actually this is not what I had done. I had tried booting form the Fixit
diskette. This is why It complained that it could not find the Boot.Config
and Boot.help files and that there was no kernel.
I tried the installation diskette and was able to use the Live
Filesystem on The second CDrom. However I was unable to access the Hard
disk so that I could repair it. Am I suppost to try and mount the Hard
disk. When I enter the mount command it only reports back that the CD-rom
is the only dev mounted.
I've tried with the Fixit Diskette and I don't seemed to be able to get
a prompt. Perhaps something is preventing the fixit diskette from working
properly.
I am running FreeBSD 2.2.8 - release #0
>> it tells me that I am missing two Boot.* files.
>It would be nice if you reported which ones.
see above comment for which ones.
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ncolicc@ibm.net (Nicolas C. Colicchio)
nicolas.colicchio@bmo.com
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