From owner-freebsd-current Sat Mar 30 00:21:04 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id AAA22045 for current-outgoing; Sat, 30 Mar 1996 00:21:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA22028 for ; Sat, 30 Mar 1996 00:20:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id JAA10781; Sat, 30 Mar 1996 09:20:49 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA08412; Sat, 30 Mar 1996 09:20:47 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.4/8.6.9) id JAA03375; Sat, 30 Mar 1996 09:04:40 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199603300804.JAA03375@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Fixit Floppy Broken? To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Sat, 30 Mar 1996 09:04:39 +0100 (MET) Cc: handy@sxt2.space.lockheed.com (Brian N. Handy) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from "Brian N. Handy" at Mar 29, 96 03:05:24 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Brian N. Handy wrote: > I had hoped we could fix this with the fixit floppy, but I'm having bad > luck with these. The fixit floppy seems broken. I can boot from it This is a known problem: gzipp'ed executables are broken in -current, but nobody has had an idea by now, what is broken, and how to fix it. All the binaries on the fixit floppy (actually, only one large super- binary anway) are gzipp'ed. > once, but never really get anywhere. If I try booting with it again it > doesn't work. The file system is unclean after the first crash, and sysinstall doesn't attempt to fsck it. However, it's *not* the fixit floppy that's broken, it's the kernel on the boot (installation) floppy. You can boot a plain 2.1R installation floppy, select F)ixit, and stick in a 2.2-SNAP fixit floppy then. > I complained earlier about 'ls' not working on the floppy drive...but I I've read it, but your description is too vague. I cannot reproduce the problem (it seems like some FS-related vnode locking, i don't think this is particularly dependant on happening on the floppy drive itself), and seriously, about nobody really uses file systems on floppies... -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)