Re: Here is a way to crash Solaris using ping!

root_at_taylor.neca.com (root) writes:

>As requested the results of fdisk -l

And this crashes your Linux system? I have tried it several times on mine and it works just fine, as expected. Sounds like you may have a badly configured system.

Also the Solaris ping crash does not require you to be root. A root user can always crash their system with 'rm -r /' on almost any Unix.

Linux is impossible to crash from a non-root user account unlike its big brother Unices. Talk about rock solid.

My system has had bad memory for a few months. Linux would give me kernel errors at boot time but somehow worked around the problem and didn't crash. I believe that it was marking that segment of memory as bad and not using it. Windows 95 and NT on the other hand would start up just fine and crash while I was doing something important. I didn't know about the bad memory until today. Its now out of my machine ofcourse.

Atif 'wanting to start another OS war' Khan aak2_at_ra.msstate.edu

>[root_at_taylor /root]# fdisk -l
 

>Disk /dev/hda: 64 heads, 63 sectors, 973 cylinders
>Units = cylinders of 4032 * 512 bytes
 

> Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System
>/dev/hda1 * 1 1 972 1959520+ 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M
 

>Disk /dev/hdb: 32 heads, 63 sectors, 530 cylinders
>Units = cylinders of 2016 * 512 bytes
 

> Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System
>/dev/hdb1 1 1 490 493888+ 83 Linux native
>/dev/hdb2 491 491 530 40320 82 Linux swap
>Warning: invalid flag 0000 of partition table 4 will be corrected by w(rite)
 

>Disk /dev/hdc: 32 heads, 63 sectors, 530 cylinders
>Units = cylinders of 2016 * 512 bytes
 

> Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System
 

>This is the result of mount
 

>[root_at_taylor /root]#mount
>/dev/hdb1 on / type ext2 (rw)
>/dev/hda1 on /dos type vfat (rw)
>none on /proc type proc (rw)
>/dev/hdc on /mnt/cdrom type iso9660 (ro)
>[root_at_taylor /root]#
 

>the "Warning: invalid flag 0000 of partition <snip>" is my CD-ROM. I mount it
>as /dev/hdc
 

>Josh.
Received on Tue Jul 01 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT