Date: Wed, 31 May 95 14:18 CDT From: uhclem%nemesis@fw.ast.com (Frank Durda IV) To: gibbs@freefall.cdrom.com Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems with 2.0.5-Alpha Message-ID: <m0sGtI2-0004w1C@nemesis.lonestar.org>
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[1]Justin T. Gibbs writes: [1]Are you configuring ANY swap on these systems? There must be some or [1]the install will fail (or so I believe). This is all running from the boot floppy, not from hard disk. We haven't gotten far enough to use the hard disk when things die. In 2.0.5-Alpha, do you have to partition the floppy now or do something more exotic than dd if=boot.flp of=/dev/rfd0a bs=9k to make the boot floppy? Swap partition on floppies? (If this is needed it should be in the .flp image.) Note I can remove the hard disk drive completely (and set BIOS accordingly) and the systems will still hang with 4, 12 or 16 Meg present on one machine, and the other machine will hang with 4 or 12 meg, and panic on boot with 16 Meg present. With 8 Meg, both systems will boot but constantly are killing processes due to out-of-swap, which the install hasn't created yet. Again, both machines were running SNAP 0420 just fine and had both run SNAPs since February without incident. They also ran 1.1.5.1 fine. FYI, I tried to define the hard drive on one of the two systems as follows: 60 Meg existing DOS partition /dos 35 Meg root / 32 Meg swap ~410Meg /usr But as I mentioned, I don't think the install process actually made filesystems and it certainly never booted from the hard disk, so I doubt any swap space on the hard disk was ever accessed. I brought the 2.0.5-Alpha boot disk into work and have found two more different models that boot from floppy OK on 0420 SNAP but hang or act goofy on 2.0.5-Alpha, so this is serious. Frank Durda IV <uhclem%nemesis@fw.ast.com>
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