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Date:      Fri, 30 May 2003 09:44:43 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Eduardo Viruena Silva <mrspock@esfm.ipn.mx>
To:        JOHN HOOVER <johnhoover@comcast.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: During Boot - error after mounting root
Message-ID:  <20030530094016.R10612@Gina.esfm.ipn.mx>
In-Reply-To: <28fbe289bf.289bf28fbe@icomcast.net>
References:  <28fbe289bf.289bf28fbe@icomcast.net>

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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.
>



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