From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 30 07:44:51 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D14537B401 for ; Fri, 30 May 2003 07:44:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Gina.esfm.ipn.mx (esfm.ipn.mx [148.204.102.61]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41A1043F75 for ; Fri, 30 May 2003 07:44:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mrspock@esfm.ipn.mx) Received: from Gina.esfm.ipn.mx (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Gina.esfm.ipn.mx (8.12.6p2/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h4UEiiVE010815; Fri, 30 May 2003 09:44:44 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from mrspock@esfm.ipn.mx) Received: from localhost (mrspock@localhost)h4UEihkp010812; Fri, 30 May 2003 09:44:43 -0500 (CDT) X-Authentication-Warning: Gina.esfm.ipn.mx: mrspock owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 09:44:43 -0500 (CDT) From: Eduardo Viruena Silva To: JOHN HOOVER In-Reply-To: <28fbe289bf.289bf28fbe@icomcast.net> Message-ID: <20030530094016.R10612@Gina.esfm.ipn.mx> References: <28fbe289bf.289bf28fbe@icomcast.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: During Boot - error after mounting root X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 14:44:51 -0000 On Fri, 30 May 2003, JOHN HOOVER wrote: > guys, > > I can't figure out how to get the mailing list search engine to take > this so I'm asking it here. > > We had power outage and machine went down, now during boot and after > mounting the root partition the character string '^[[0' appears alot. > The machine still runs and seems ok, but since I can't seem to get a > search engine to take the string anyone got an idea what this is and > if it's fixable without a complete reformat? this happend to some of my users as a consequence of a virus attack. he was running window, the mbr and partition table were destroyed... is your partition table still alive? is your master boot record still alive? > > Also, would someone please check the MX record and reverse dns for > ns1.gaiserco.com 207.191.77.178 >From Mexico City. The reverse register does not work: Isabeau:/home/mrspock> host ns1.gaiserco.com s1.gaiserco.com has address 207.191.77.178 Isabeau:/home/mrspock> host 207.191.77.178 Host not found. > The FreeBSD lists are refusing to accept mail from here claming that > my hostname can't be found. >