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Date:      Mon, 25 Aug 2003 23:01:40 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Bryan Liesner <bleez@comcast.net>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   panic, then trashed IDE drive - from kernel dump?
Message-ID:  <20030825223702.P519@gravy.homeunix.net>

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The last known good state of my system was a world and kernel from
Sunday, Aug 24 at approx 12:00 EDT.

This problem is from a kernel built from sources current as of
Aug 26th at approx 22:00 EDT

Here's the sequence - I booted the system, had a panic while running
sysctl from etc/rc.d/devd.  It completed a core dump, and rebooted.
(Good, I thought, this time I'll have a dump for a backtrace).

The system rebooted and found no bootable disks. I had to repartition
the disk and restore from backup.  I suspect the dump scribbled all
over the drive...

This is repeatable, and I found out, I have good backups :)

Anything I can do to help, please let me know.  I'll try to get some
sort of a backtrace, but I think doing it from a core dump will be
futile...

Thanks.











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