Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 00:41:44 -0500 (CDT) From: Vijay Ramasubramanian <ramasubr@ews.uiuc.edu> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Installation probs w/3.0-BETA Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.981012233828.28041B-100000@eesn17.ews.uiuc.edu>
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Hello. I am trying to install the 3.0-19981009-BETA release. Here is my
hardware configuration:
AMD K6-233 (one of the latest revisions)
Intel TX chipset motherboard w/512KB cache
64 MB SDRAM
AdvanSys ABP-940 SCSI host adapter, SCSI ID 7
IBM DCAS 2.2 GB Ultra SCSI drive, SCSI ID 0
IBM DCAS 2.2 GB Ultra SCSI drive, SCSI ID 1
Fujitsu 405 MB Fast SCSI-2 drive, SCSI ID 2
NEC 3X SCSI CD-ROM, SCSI ID 3
S3 Virge-based PCI video card
SMC EtherPower II (9432TX) PCI Ethernet card
PS/2 Logitech mouse
I have a dedicated internet connection via the ethernet.
I have tried and failed many times to get this installed on the computer.
At first, the way I partitioned and labeled the drives for installation
is as follows:
Drive 0 (IBM 2.2 GB):
400MB FAT16 (Windows 95 resides here)
Remainder FreeBSD FS, mount at: /
Leave MBR alone (I had planned on installing System Commander later)
Drive 1 (IBM 2.2 GB):
Dedicated FreeBSD FS, mount at: /home
Drive 2 (Fujitsu 405 MB):
Dedicated FreeBSD
202 MB SWAP
202 MB FreeBSD FS, mount at: /scratch
I had planned to run the /var and /usr directories off the root FS
partition.
At boot-time, I configure the kernel and disable all devices that I don't
have (including ISA ethernet and SCSI cards, etc).
Once I get the installation via FTP started (from ftp.freebsd.org), it
progresses to 34% and then crashes. The progress bar reads "Extracting
bin into / directory..."
The stats bar at the bottom reads: "9438208 bytes read from bin dist,
chunk 40 of 116 @ 13.4kB/sec"
The error messages are as follows:
Panic: ufs_dirbad: bad dir
Syncing disks... 143 143 143 70 40 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 giving up
(da2:adv0:0:2:0): . CDB: 35 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
(da2:adv0:0:2:0): ILLEGAL REQUEST asc: 20,0
(da2:adv0:0:2:0):
And then of course, the automatic reboot stuff, etc.
It seemed that it was having problems with SCSI device 2, which is the
Fujitsu drive. I scanned the drive for bad sectors with Norton Utils
and SpinRite (there weren't any). I have also used the disk heavily under
Windows 95 and NT and there have been no problems with it. Thus I don't
know why it would have problems with the Fujitsu.
So, I tried yanking the Fujitsu and just installing the / FS to the 1st
IBM drive, and putting Swap on the 2nd drive. The installation then died
at 35% with the message:
Panic: ffs_alloccg : bad map
This may not be exactly the error message (the part after ffs_alloccg) as
the machine rebooted before I could get of the info, and I have no desire
to try a 15th installation attempt to get the message again.
The hardware has been run under 95 so far without any problems, although
most people would probably say that running under 95 is not much of a test
of hardware.
Can anyone tell me how to go about getting this resolved?
If you think it may be bad hardware, can you suggest diagnostic-type
programs that I can test with? I have relatively limited hardware
resources, and can't do stuff like swapping out the CPU, RAM, etc.
PLEASE CC replies to me personally.
Thank you.
.______
| Vijay N. Ramasubramanian
mailto:ramasubr@ews.uiuc.edu
http://www.ews.uiuc.edu/~ramasubr/
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