From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 3 15: 3:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gaia.euronet.nl (gaia.euronet.nl [194.134.0.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DC1E15789 for ; Wed, 3 Mar 1999 15:03:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from roelof@eboa.com) Received: from charon.eboa.com (n669.telekabel.euronet.nl [194.134.130.170]) by gaia.euronet.nl (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA09209; Thu, 4 Mar 1999 00:02:46 +0100 (MET) Received: from eboa.com (roelof [10.0.0.2]) by charon.eboa.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA30748; Thu, 4 Mar 1999 00:02:36 +0100 Message-ID: <36DDBFEB.86D89D20@eboa.com> Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1999 00:04:11 +0100 From: Roelof Osinga Organization: eboa - engineering buro Office Automation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Lehey Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Have crashed, won't travel References: <36DCB59E.F16D5539@eboa.com> <19990303195632.B441@lemis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greg Lehey wrote: > > On Wednesday, 3 March 1999 at 5:07:58 +0100, Roelof Osinga wrote: > > In a short period of time I've experienced two crashes of my box. The > > first was due to a power failure, the second was probably due to some > > hardware failure or other (in the midst of installing lynx, retry went > > smooth). > > > > After both crashes at least one filesystem was reported damaged. The first > > time I wiped and reinstalled. The second time I learned to live with it. > > However, I'm still a bit nervous. For what if something crucial was > > mutilated? > > What was the message? What message? . One moment it was 'make install'-ing lynx, the next moment I had a black screen followed by the usual cold boot messages. Unless there is a place where potential pre-crash error messages get stored, I don't think we'll ever know whether there was any message. I myself was sitting behind another system at the moment and could only observe from the corner of my eye. Roelof To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message