Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 14:46:52 -0500 (EST) From: "Eric J. Chet" <ejc@bazzle.com> To: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net> Cc: <current@freebsd.org>, <caa@bazzle.com> Subject: Re: Losing the battle with RC1 Message-ID: <20021213144437.Y44905-100000@gargoyle.bazzle.com> In-Reply-To: <20021213190352.C33BD5D04@ptavv.es.net>
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Hello I have a Thinkpad T23 and to get current to be stable I had to upgrade the the bios. Might help you also. 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. > > 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 > Eric Chet -> echet@Trilegiant.com, ejc@bazzle.com, ejc@kenpo-jujitsu.com Technical Lead/Architect Trilegiant Inc. Distributed OO Systems, J2EE, CORBA Kenpo JuJitsu the Ultimate in Self Defense, Tai Chi for Life ejc@FreeBSD.org -> "Live Free or Die" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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