Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 11:54:36 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Dimitry Andric <dimitry@andric.com> Cc: FreeBSD-Current List <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: MBR zapped when panicking? Message-ID: <20031021185435.GA66921@rot13.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <13041066290.20031021201724@andric.com> References: <13041066290.20031021201724@andric.com>
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--fUYQa+Pmc3FrFX/N Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 08:17:24PM +0200, Dimitry Andric wrote: > Hi, >=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. This is a known bug in the ATA driver. Tor Egge provided a workaround patch here a few weeks ago. I didn't try it because I can't afford to trash my disks like that again. Kris --fUYQa+Pmc3FrFX/N Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/lYDrWry0BWjoQKURAvciAJ987wQ1YYR8e3yXz2jGvXATHjN+nACgqdjE uDDQKnrt/5n9IzIZGMAqxjw= =LM3P -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --fUYQa+Pmc3FrFX/N--
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