Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 20:50:44 +0200 From: Tilman Linneweh <tilman@arved.de> To: Dimitry Andric <dimitry@andric.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: MBR zapped when panicking? Message-ID: <20031021185044.GA82524@huckfinn.arved.de> In-Reply-To: <13041066290.20031021201724@andric.com> References: <13041066290.20031021201724@andric.com>
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* Dimitry Andric [Di, 21 Okt 2003 at 20:19 GMT]: >=20 > Today I had a -CURRENT machine panic on me with a page fault, and > something happened that I have seen before: the machine refused to > come up afterwards. Closer inspection revealed that the MBR on the > boot disk was totally zapped, filled with seemingly random characters. > Luckily the disk label was still intact, allowing me to recover the > machine reasonably easy. The MBRs on the other disks (see attached > dmesg.txt for more info) wasn't touched by the panic. Same happened to me last week, It is a known problem, see 3. point on=20 http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.2R/todo.html regards tilman
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