Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 11:03:52 -0800 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Losing the battle with RC1 Message-ID: <20021213190352.C33BD5D04@ptavv.es.net>
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For the past few days I have been trying to get RC1 running on my old laptop (IBM ThinkPad 600E). The installation worked pretty well, but the system crashes frequently when acpi is running. I decided to get a dump to look at and added the following to my rc.conf: dumpdev="/dev/ad0s2b" dumpdir="/scratch" ad0s2 IS my swap partition. I don't think the /scratch directory is relevant as I never get to the savecore. After I re-boot, the system boots just fine and soon I get the acpi crash. At that point I need to enter "continue" several times at the db> prompt before the system finally dumps. When I try to reboot, the system starts to boot normally until it tries to mount the root file system. IT then reports that it can't mount the system and asks for the manual entry of the root fs. I tried booting the fixit disk and looking at the disk. fsck_ffs reports that the super block is bad and that values disagree with those in the first alternate. Continuing produces many, many errors. When I try to mount the partition, I get "Operation not permitted". Attempts to boot the disk now fail completely and I am back to re-installing the system. This all seems to be linked to the dump. If I don't have the system configured to dump, it re-boots just fine. Any idea of what might be happening here? Not being able to get a dump doesn't leave me with many options and I'm getting tired of re-installing the system, although I'm getting pretty proficient at it. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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