From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 27 15:29:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns.pnpa.net (ns.pnpa.net [216.37.241.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55CA937B401 for ; Sat, 27 Jan 2001 15:29:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from daemon (technotic.pnpa.net [216.37.241.6]) by ns.pnpa.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with SMTP id SAA28194 for ; Sat, 27 Jan 2001 18:29:15 -0500 (EST) From: "Ian Reilly" To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD. ORG" Subject: Install Problems. panic: ffs_valloc: dup alloc Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 18:29:48 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Good eveing all! I've searched though the archives, deja, and google and nothing that quite fit of fixed the problem. This happens when trying to install. just after it newfs's, says that 'all file system information written successfully' and then panics, and tries to resync until it reboots. system config Giga-byte GA-7zx main board Duron 750 256M pc133 ram WD 30gig ide drive. this happens when the partitions are written 500M / 500M /var 512M swap 28.5 gigs /usr but when i do the automatic settings, it dies with a 'write failure on transfer! (wrote -1 bytes of 240640 bytes) any help with this would be greatly appreciated. TIA Ian -- Si vis pacem, para bellum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message