From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 30 18:32:55 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 5CA2B37B401 for ; Fri, 30 May 2003 18:32:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from franky.speednet.com.au (franky.speednet.com.au [203.57.65.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59A2543FBF for ; Fri, 30 May 2003 18:32:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andyf@speednet.com.au) Received: from hewey.af.speednet.com.au (hewey.af.speednet.com.au [203.38.96.242])h4V1Wmxe081656; Sat, 31 May 2003 11:32:48 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from andyf@speednet.com.au) Received: from hewey.af.speednet.com.au (hewey.af.speednet.com.au [172.22.2.1])h4V1WkUN052996; Sat, 31 May 2003 11:32:47 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from andyf@speednet.com.au) Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 11:32:46 +1000 (EST) From: Andy Farkas X-X-Sender: andyf@hewey.af.speednet.com.au To: JOHN HOOVER In-Reply-To: <2e5a82e77a.2e77a2e5a8@icomcast.net> Message-ID: <20030531113056.S52633-100000@hewey.af.speednet.com.au> 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: Sat, 31 May 2003 01:32:55 -0000 On Fri, 30 May 2003, JOHN HOOVER wrote: > The machine is running just fine (best I can tell). > It's a Samba server with internal email, no one's complained about > it not working from the client side. > > It did take three or four attempts to get it to boot successfully > after the power outage. But now it boots without any fuss except for > the strings of [O^[[O^[[O^[[O^[[O^[[ after mounting the partitions. > > the error is on the console, there not in /var/log/messages or dmesg. Does the string appear continually or is it only one short string and then ok? Does it happen if you switch to a different virtual screen? I bet you have a broken keyboard (zapped during the power outage). -- :{ andyf@speednet.com.au Andy Farkas System Administrator Speednet Communications http://www.speednet.com.au/