From owner-freebsd-security Mon Mar 5 0:49:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from ringworld.nanolink.com (ringworld.nanolink.com [195.24.48.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E2C5137B718 for ; Mon, 5 Mar 2001 00:49:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from roam@orbitel.bg) Received: (qmail 11046 invoked by uid 1000); 5 Mar 2001 08:49:08 -0000 Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 10:49:08 +0200 From: Peter Pentchev To: "Michael A. Dickerson" Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "Input/output error" on a variety of devices Message-ID: <20010305104907.A10970@ringworld.oblivion.bg> Mail-Followup-To: "Michael A. Dickerson" , freebsd-security@freebsd.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from mikey@singingtree.com on Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 04:51:53AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org This looks like a hardware error to me - one or more of the disk sectors holding /dev was damaged, and the rest were left intact. Unfortunately, the ones that were damaged are the ones that contain some of the important system devices, so it's quite likely you're locked out of the system, console access too :( You might have to boot a rescue CD or something, then back up as much of the usable info as possible, and scrap the disk. G'luck, Peter -- Nostalgia ain't what it used to be. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message