Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 11:22:10 -0800 (PST) From: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> To: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Losing the battle with RC1 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0212131116010.36866-100000@root.org> In-Reply-To: <20021213190352.C33BD5D04@ptavv.es.net>
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On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Kevin Oberman wrote: > 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. ad0s2 needs to be as big as main memory or dumps may overwrite the next partition. > 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. type "panic" instead. "cont" may obscure the true source of the crash. > 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. How does this work for you? fsck_ffs -b 32 / Also, try mounting the fs read only if you just need to read files off it. -Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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