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Date:      Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:47:14 +0200
From:      David Naylor <naylor.b.david@gmail.com>
To:        Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Device not configured
Message-ID:  <200912171647.17938.naylor.b.david@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0912161742000.97785@wonkity.com>
References:  <200912162359.44675.naylor.b.david@gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0912161742000.97785@wonkity.com>

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On Thursday 17 December 2009 02:56:12 Warren Block wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, David Naylor wrote:
> > I booted into single user mode (running FreeBSD 8 RC2) and did:
> >
> > # dd if=3D/dev/ad8 of=3D/dev/ad8 bs=3D1024k
>=20
> That command copies the hard drive... over itself.  What were you trying
> to do?

The dd manpages mentioned this might help with errors on the HDD.  I'm tryi=
ng=20
to eliminate problems relating to VirtualBox and DMA errors an ad8. =20

> > After waiting a few hours the command completed without problem (ad8 is
> > the HDD that has FreeBSD).  After that I got the following:
> >
> > # reboot
> > reboot: device not configured
> > # ls
> > vnode_pager_getpages: I/O read error
> > ls: device not configured
>=20
> Not good.  Maybe trying to swap back in from swap that was just
> overwritten?

No swap was active at that time

> > Pressing the boxes power button results in the above vnode message to
> > spam the screen.  The only way to reset the system was to do a hard res=
et
> > (root was ro
> >
> > :-) ).
>=20
> Did it come back up?

Yes, all data is still there, as before. =20

> > Is this expected behaviour or something wrong with the HDD?
>=20
> Not expected, exactly, but not surprising.  The hardware should be fine.

Well, no harm done. =20

Thanks for your reply


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