Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 17:23:01 +0200 (SAT) From: Robert Nordier <rnordier@iafrica.com> To: cawood@unixg.ubc.ca (Stephen Cawood) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: copying from dos Message-ID: <199611291523.RAA03392@eac.iafrica.com> In-Reply-To: <329ED4A3.2C71@unixg.ubc.ca> from Stephen Cawood at "Nov 29, 96 04:18:43 am"
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Stephen Cawood wrote:
> Could someone help me with this frustrating problem?
>
> Thank you in advance for your time.
>
> I have searched the archives and have found no mention of this problem.
>
> OK, when I try to copy files from my dos partition to my Bsd partition,
> I get an error message, the machine reboots and I can no longer boot
> Bsd.
>
> It doesn't happen with every file but it has happened every time I have
> tried to cp a few files over to bsd.
>
> The error message is:
>
> mode-0120025, inum=791, fs=/
> panic=ffs_valloc: dup alloc
> synching disks...14 14 2 done
> Automatic reboot on 15 seconds
>
> And then when I try to boot it says:
>
> Error: c:158870 > 1023 (Bios Limit)
>
>
> It seems that the partitions are not mouted properly but I have tried it
> both manually and through the boot manager.
>
> The files that I am trying to copy over are the new version of XF86Free
> which I need to use my particular Mach64.
>
> I would appreciate any help that anyone could offer.
This is a bug that's probably just been fixed in 3.0-current. Unless
you are tracking -current, you need to either
* Make your DOS partition smaller, so your cluster size doesn't
exceed 16K. (To find out the cluster size, run DOS `chkdsk'
and look for "allocation units".)
or
* Use some some utility to copy the files. (`Mtools' in the
ports collection supports hard disks, but I don't know if
this works on FreeBSD. Otherwise, I've got something
lying around somewhere you could probably use.)
--
Robert Nordier
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