From owner-freebsd-current Mon Oct 12 22:41:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA05007 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 22:41:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from eesn17.ews.uiuc.edu (eesn17.ews.uiuc.edu [130.126.161.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA05002 for ; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 22:41:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ramasubr@ews.uiuc.edu) Received: from localhost (ramasubr@localhost) by eesn17.ews.uiuc.edu (8.8.8/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA28463 for ; Tue, 13 Oct 1998 00:41:45 -0500 (CDT) X-Authentication-Warning: eesn17.ews.uiuc.edu: ramasubr owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 00:41:44 -0500 (CDT) From: Vijay Ramasubramanian To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Installation probs w/3.0-BETA Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message