From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 26 18:43:34 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA27605 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 26 Oct 1996 18:43:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freenet.hamilton.on.ca (main.freenet.hamilton.on.ca [199.212.94.65]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA27600 for ; Sat, 26 Oct 1996 18:43:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca [199.212.94.66]) by freenet.hamilton.on.ca (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA27550; Sat, 26 Oct 1996 21:43:39 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (ac199@localhost) by james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA22160; Sat, 26 Oct 1996 21:45:30 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca: ac199 owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 26 Oct 1996 21:45:29 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Vanderhoek To: Drew Derbyshire cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: file systems eaten by space DOS, film at 11? In-Reply-To: <32729b0a.kendra@pandora.kew.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 26 Oct 1996, Drew Derbyshire wrote: > *** Please copy to me directly, since my subscription to the list is > still being processed. Sorry *** I think that's standard procedure on this (and actually, all) FreeBSD mailing lists. > ... and * B L A M M O * kernel panics because it can't mount root. Wierd. Is there any chance that you used FIPS to split the DOS partition? Maybe, just maybe fips screwed something up so much that DOS went wacky? Even that just doesn't seem right... > Have I got space aliens loose or what? DOS virus is unlikely, since the > DOS install was from fresh write protected MS (tm) disks. You're sure it's not this? I'm no viral expert, but maybe (just maybe) there was a virus when you did the first `fdisk /mbr' from dos. The virus (or some other) then took the opportunity to infect the mbr. Then, when you reinstalled DOS it infected DOS again. Then it caused it's problems again? -- Outnumbered? Maybe. Outspoken? Never! tIM...HOEk