Date: Mon, 9 Dec 1996 15:03:56 +0200 (EET) From: Marko Lamminen <hawk@jalopeno.nixu.fi> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: problems with reinstall... Message-ID: <199612091303.PAA01942@jalopeno.nixu.fi>
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I recently begun keeping up with -current (once again) as I finally got my new machine that has power enough to compile world at a decent time. Everything went fine until I decided to install current to my other freebsd (old 486-66) too mounting the source and obj trees from the faster machine and doing reinstall. The machine I was upgrading was a few months old -current. First problem was that gzcat insisted that some of the manual page packages were invalid format (altough they worked on the nfs server which was already running 3.0-current) this not being very serious I installed a new kernel (which I had compiled in the faster machine but with config that was made for the 486) and rebooted the system. Reboot went fine until it was time to mount root_device writabe, mount gave a bus error and nothing I could do to mount root writable. Also trying an update on any other fs would also result in bus error and most strange was that 'man mount' also gave a bus error but for example 'man ls' worked just fine. Since the only real difference between the two machine was the kernel I first suspected it but could find no flaws in the config and am now totally clueless as what might be causing this. I would be more than happy to get any suggestion on which way to look for trouble. I even tried booting the old 2.2 kernel but that resulted in the same errors. The 486 machine has 1542 adaptec scsi and a 4 gig seagate hawk4. I'm currently booting this system with fbsdboot.exe from dos due to some exotic partition configurations but this shouldn't matter as it used to work just as same and the kernel does load corretly (or atleast seems to load corretly). Problem number two: There seems to some incompability problem with my faster machine and the curretn bootloader since if I try to boot the system normally it hangs right after loading the kernel but using fbsdboot.exe from dos the booting goes just fine. The machine is a Asus double Pentium Pro motherboard (passive mb, two pentium pro card) and I'm using on board IDE as harddisk controller. I have 64M of FPM installed. This might be due to some bios setting but disabling every bios option I could think of causing this didn't change anything. More detailed system configurations/software/bios setting are available if they are needed. (I'm at school and the machines are at home) - Marko Lamminen (hawk@nixu.fi)
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