Date: Mon, 26 Feb 96 00:54:01 EST From: Dan Malek <dan@westford.ccur.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Cc: dan@westford.ccur.com Subject: More 2.1 installation problems Message-ID: <9602260054.aa26505@moe.westford.ccur.com>
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About two months ago I installed 2.1.0 Release on a new 133MHz Pentium. I had problems with the root file system becoming corrupted, and blamed it on the Windows '95 partition on the same disk. This has since been "fixed" by patiently restoring the files by hand. I have now spent three days trying to install 2.1.0 on a machine that has been running 2.0.5 very well. Actually, the 2.0.5 machine crashed and I lost some of the shared libraries, so I decided it was time to update that one with 2.1.0. What a disaster this has been. Shortly (less than five minutes) after booting the new installation, I get the error: mode = 00640 inum = 31 fs = / panic ffs_alloc: dup_alloc The subsequent reboot and fsck finds all root inodes (and directories) of all mounted file systems hosed, creates a new lost+found and moves everything there. I am trying to install 2.1.0-RELEASE#0, 16 Nov. 1995. Is this a known problem that I just missed in the news group? The system normally runs with an Adaptec 284x SCSI interface and a 1.0 Gbyte SCSI-2 disk. I have tried different disks and controllers, including IDE disks and controller. Same result. Since I must have loaded the software fifty times, I have noticed about one-half of the time the installation fails with file system write errors (i.e. -1 returned to cpio) while trying to uncompress and install the software. I have tried all combinations of FDISK, PFDISK, number of partitions, precise manual alignment of slices on cylinders, automatic configuration options, and giving FreeBSD the entire disk. All installations result in the same error. I am at wits end. Any information will be helpful. Thanks. -- Dan Malek
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