From owner-freebsd-current Fri Dec 13 11:47: 5 2002 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 CEF3637B401 for ; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 11:47:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from gargoyle.bazzle.com (dhcp9549009.columbus.rr.com [24.95.49.9]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C496343EC2 for ; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 11:46:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ejc@bazzle.com) Received: (qmail 45008 invoked by uid 1000); 13 Dec 2002 19:46:52 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 13 Dec 2002 19:46:52 -0000 Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 14:46:52 -0500 (EST) From: "Eric J. Chet" To: Kevin Oberman Cc: , Subject: Re: Losing the battle with RC1 In-Reply-To: <20021213190352.C33BD5D04@ptavv.es.net> Message-ID: <20021213144437.Y44905-100000@gargoyle.bazzle.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 Hello I have a Thinkpad T23 and to get current to be stable I had to upgrade the the bios. Might help you also. On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Kevin Oberman wrote: > For the past few days I have been trying to get RC1 running on my old > laptop (IBM ThinkPad 600E). The installation worked pretty well, but > the system crashes frequently when acpi is running. > > I decided to get a dump to look at and added the following to my > rc.conf: > dumpdev="/dev/ad0s2b" > dumpdir="/scratch" > > ad0s2 IS my swap partition. I don't think the /scratch directory is > relevant as I never get to the savecore. > > After I re-boot, the system boots just fine and soon I get the acpi > crash. At that point I need to enter "continue" several times at the > db> prompt before the system finally dumps. > > When I try to reboot, the system starts to boot normally until it > tries to mount the root file system. IT then reports that it can't > mount the system and asks for the manual entry of the root fs. > > I tried booting the fixit disk and looking at the disk. fsck_ffs > reports that the super block is bad and that values disagree with > those in the first alternate. Continuing produces many, many errors. > > When I try to mount the partition, I get "Operation not > permitted". Attempts to boot the disk now fail completely and I am > back to re-installing the system. > > This all seems to be linked to the dump. If I don't have the system > configured to dump, it re-boots just fine. > > Any idea of what might be happening here? Not being able to get a dump > doesn't leave me with many options and I'm getting tired of > re-installing the system, although I'm getting pretty proficient at it. > > R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer > Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) > Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) > E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > Eric Chet -> echet@Trilegiant.com, ejc@bazzle.com, ejc@kenpo-jujitsu.com Technical Lead/Architect Trilegiant Inc. Distributed OO Systems, J2EE, CORBA Kenpo JuJitsu the Ultimate in Self Defense, Tai Chi for Life ejc@FreeBSD.org -> "Live Free or Die" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message