On Saturday 30 July 2011 11:17:52 Dale wrote: > What could have caused this? Could it be a file system problem? I > don't think it is a physical failure since it is working now after > giving it a fresh start. I just don't get how this could have caused a > kernel panic. This is plain weird.
One possibility is that, having now written to almost every location on the disk, its controller has marked some faulty blocks that used to contain code in the disk subsystem. If it was reading damaged data, there's no surprise in anything that happened next! > Would love to hear some thoughts on what caused this problem given the > fix. That's mine :-) (And it's not far off what I suggested to you before: that the lightning strike had damaged your hardware.) -- Rgds Peter Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23
