From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 5 17:45:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sonic.digital-web.net (sonic.digital-web.net [216.65.27.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D08E414ECE for ; Mon, 5 Apr 1999 17:45:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joseph@randomnetworks.com) Received: from localhost (jmscott@localhost) by sonic.digital-web.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA15518 for ; Mon, 5 Apr 1999 20:40:03 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 20:39:49 -0400 (EDT) From: Joseph Scott X-Sender: jmscott@sonic.digital-web.net Reply-To: Joseph Scott To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: 3.1 install probs, bad mem? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've got a machine that I'm trying to install 3.1-RELEASE from CD on to. I'm running into some problems. Hardware : PII, 64 MD Ram, Adaptec 2940UW SCSI card, Toshiba SCSI CD-ROM, IBM 8gig SCSI HD While it's installing from the cd I'm getting a kernel panic, unfortunately it reboots before I get much of a chance to write it down. However during the install (before it's paniced) I get several messages like this : /stand/cpio: :No such file or directory /stand/cpio: invalid header: checksum error /stand/cpio: warning: skipped xxxxx bytes of junk where the xxxxx is some number. I'll get tons of these and then it will eventually panic. I also had the following error: Write failure on transfer! (wrote -1 bytes of 1024 bytes) So my guess is that it's bad memory. I thought I would post this first to see if there was any imput on some other things that I should look at. Some other things that I think might be able to create problems like this may be the cd rom drive or the scsi adapter. Although I really lean towards the memory. This is a brand new system from one of the local shops. Joseph Scott joseph@randomnetworks.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message