From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jan 11 15: 0:21 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9720937B42F for ; Sat, 11 Jan 2003 15:00:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from outel.org (outel.org [168.150.177.152]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C1C543F1E for ; Sat, 11 Jan 2003 15:00:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from qumqats@outel.org) Received: from localhost (winxp [192.168.1.20]) by outel.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0BMxpEU048717; Sat, 11 Jan 2003 14:59:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from qumqats@outel.org) Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 14:59:52 -0800 From: "Joel M. Baldwin" To: "Gary W. Swearingen" , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 5.0-RC2 won't install (zf_read & vm_fault) while 4.7 will Message-ID: <673066648.1042297192@[192.168.1.20]> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Mulberry/3.0.0 (Win32) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --On Friday, January 10, 2003 5:36 PM -0800 "Gary W. Swearingen" wrote: > I got an old P100 I'm preparing for NAT duty at a Linux meeting and I > tried to install 5.0-RC2 on it. Near end of mfsroot.flp loading I > get: > > zf_read: unexpected EOF > > but it continues booting. Just after normal msgs about fd0 & ppc, it > starts spewing unending messages so fast I can't read them well. > Something like this, over and over: > > vm_fault: pager read error pid 1 error 5 [...] > spec_getpages: (md0) [...] > > I bit-checked the CD and floppies and they're good. Try making another floppy. I've thought I had a good floppy before and gotten that error. Get another floppy, format it, copy the boot.flp image onto it, and see if you're still having the errors. > Apparently I have an Intel chipset. From boot msgs: > > Intel 82371SB PCI to ISA bridge > Intel PIIX3 ATA controller > fdc0 NEC 72065B or clone > > The 'puter installs Linux and FreeBSD 4.7 OK (except only Linux > will boot from the CD). > > There were only a few msgs at groups.google.com with that error msg > and not much help, but then I don't need 5.0 and so don't need help. > > > BTW, that "md0" looked interesting to me because I just had this error > on my main 5.0 (08'jan'03) system when trying to fix my script which > uses (used) obsolete "vnconfig". > > $ XXX=$(mdconfig -a -t vnode -u 0 /big/ftp/pub/5.0-RC2-i386-disc1.iso) > mdconfig: ioctl(/dev/mdctl): Bad address > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message